May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 101

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678) et alia.
Sammelband of Seven Collections of Poems, 1689.
Quarto volume including the following seven titles:

1) A Collection of Poems on the Affairs of State;

2) The Second Part of the Collection of the Poems on Affairs of State;

3) The Third Part of the Collection;

4) A Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Songs, Catches &c. Against Popery;

5) A Second Collection;

6) A Third Collection;

[and] 7) The Fourth (and Last) Collection; all London: [no printer], 1689; contents very good, all works uncut throughout, bound in full crushed dark red morocco by Riviere; an important collection of poetical miscellanies that form a group but are very seldom found intact, especially in this condition, 9 x 7 in.

I: Wing C-5176A; ESTC R202112; II: Wing S-2302; Pforzheimer 670; ESTC R10478; III: Wing T-913; Pforzheimer 670; ESTC R22081; IV: Wing C-5206; ESTC R224341; V: Wing S-2266; ESTC R7993; VI: Wing T-902; ESTC R26292; VII: Wing F-1684; ESTC R24041; see also Hazlitt I, 335; Hoe Catalogue V (1905) 333; Case 188 (first three parts) & 189 (second group four parts).

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.