Dryden, Defoe and others

[Gould, Robert.] Love given over: or, a satyr against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman. London: For R. Bentley and J. Tonson, 1690, [Wing G1426]--[Ames, Richard.] The Folly of love. A New satyr against woman... For E. Hawkins 1701, fifth edition, [Foxon, A182]; Sylvia’s revenge, or, a satyr against man: in answer to the satyr against woman. The eleventh edition corrected. For Susanna Battersby, 1707, [Foxon A183, ONLY ONE COPY OF THIS EDITION RECORDED BY ESTC]; Sylvia’s complaint, of her sexes unhappiness. A poem. Being the second part of Sylvia’s revenge... Richard Baldwin, 1692, [Wing A2992A]--O., P. The woeful treaty: or the Unhappy Peace. An Ode. In the Measure of the celebrated Song of Chevy-Chase.. J. Harrison and J. Billingsley, J. Baker and A. Boulter, 1716, [Foxon W541]--[Dryden, John.] Absalom and Achitophel. A poem. For J.T., 1682, third edition, [Wing D2218; Macdonald 12f], title torn and soiled--Poetical Miscellany. A second collection of the newest and most ingenious poems, satyrs, songs, &c. against popery and tyranny, relating to the times. Printed in the year 1689, [Wing S2266], without initial blank--Sprightly, Phil, pseud. Love-verses, by an officer in the Duke of Argyle’s army. For R. Burleigh, 1716, [Foxon, L286; ONLY TWO COPIES RECORDED BY ESTC, at National Library of Scotland and at National Library of Wales]--Rime and reason: or, a word in season. A satyr. H. Hills, [?1705], drop-head title, [Foxon R188; ONLY THREE COPIES RECORDED BY ESTC]--An Answer to the Great Noise about Nothing... 1705, drop-head title, [Foxon, A248]--A great noise about nothing; or the Church’s danger. A satyr. 1705, [Foxon, G273]--Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl of. An Essay on Translated Verse. For Jacob Tonson, 1684, [Wing R1930]--Dryden, John. Threnodia Augustalis... For Jacob Tonson, 1685, [Macdonald 20a], heavily soiled--[Shippen, William.] Faction Display'd. 1704, [Foxon S429]--Abell, John. A Collection of Songs in several languages... [1715], ONLY THREE COPIES RECORDED BY ESTC--[Defoe, Daniel]. Reformation of Manners, a Satyr. [1702], [?Foxon, D146], lacking first gathering; The True-born Englishman. A Satyr. 1701, drop-head title, [Moore 28; Foxon D156]--[Dryden, John.] The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition. For Jacob Tonson, 1682, second issue with lines in Latin at the end, [Wing D2311; Macdonald 13ai]--[Defoe, Daniel]. A Hymn to Peace. 1706, [Foxon D111; cf. Moore 109]

and 5 others (including Foxon D391), 4to (c.203 x 160mm.), late seventeenth or eighteenth-century panelled calf, ownership signature dated 1720 on front endpaper, many leaves soiled or stained or torn at edges, partially disbound, binding very worn and rubbed, spine defective



 

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Richard Gould (d. 1709) was a hack writer of poems and tragedies whose writing is extremely misogynistic. The first work here, Love Given Over, first appeared in 1682 and ran to several editions, inspiring Sarah Fyde's answer The Female Advocate, as well as Richard Ames's Sylvia series, two of which are present in this volume.