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DRYDEN, JOHN. Astraea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration & Return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second. [3]-15, [1] pages; lacks initial leaf with royal arms on verso. Folio, 289x187 mm, 19th-century 1/2 sheep, spine badly worn, covers detached; minor marginal soiling. 19th-century catalogue cutting tipped to front free endpaper. Bookplate of Charles B. Foote. London: J. M. for Henry Herringman, 1660
first edition of Dryden's second book, hailing the restoration of the monarchy; his first, published the year before, had been an elegy on the death of Oliver Cromwell. Macdonald 5ai, second state of page 11; Wing D2244.
