Accession number:
PML 60558
Published:
London : Printed by S. Simmons, and to be sold by S. Thomson at the Bishops-Head in Duck-lane, H. Mortlack at the White Hart in Westminster Hall, M. Walker under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, and R. Boulter at the Turks-Head in Bishopsgate street,
Credit:
Gift; Miss Caroline Newton; 1970.
Description:
1 v. (unpaged) ; 19 cm
Notes:
First edition, with fourth title page and with the addition of the seven preliminary leaves containing The argument, The verse, and Errata.
Bound between Vv and Vv2, and not included in the foliation described above, is an unsigned half-sheet, the third page of which bears the title of the book in its second state ["Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker" and by Robert Boulter, and Matthias Walker] dated 1667. The author's name is in smaller type.
This copy listed among the books bound by Samuel Mearne for Charles II in a statement preserved in the Thynne papers, the archives of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat, vol. 73 (box 26), leaf 25r.
Binding:
Reddish brown morocco, gilt, g.e., with the crowned cipher of Charles II stamped in five of the six spine compartments; in a brown morocco case.
Provenance:
From the libraries of Charles II of England, William Hopkinson (armorial bookplate), and Miss Caroline Newton (bookplate).
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