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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Wither, George (1588-1667) Juvenilia. A Collection of Those Poemes.
London: Printed [by Thomas Snodham] for John Budge, 1622.
First edition, octavo, engraved title with contemporary hand-coloring, lacking blanks A1 & A8; signature A, leaves B1 & B2, divisional title to Prince Henrie, and Qq6 supplied with smaller leaves; sections Abuses Stript and Whipt; Prince Henries Obsequies; A Satyre; Epithalamia; The Shepheards Hunting; and Fidelia each with separate divisional titles, collation continuous; side notes in Epithalamia cropped with loss; a few faults to text leaves, light staining, some words rubbed out by an aggressive commentator; bound in full 19th century straight-grain brown textured leather, slightly rubbed, aeg., 6 x 4 in.
STC 25911; ESTC S120366; Wither to Prior 1032; Pforzheimer 1083 note; rare at auction.
