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Wither, George (1588-1667) The Great Assises Holden in Parnassus by Apollo and his Assessours.
London: Printed by Richard Cotes for Edward Husbands, 1645.
First edition, quarto, title page printed within a frame of type ornaments (slightly dusty), text leaves uncut throughout, lacking final blank; bound in full crushed green morocco ornately gilt-tooled by Riviere and Sons, and housed in a buckram chemise, ex libris John L. Clawson and E.M. Cox with bookplates, and dated signature of C.H. Larkin dated 1930, purchased in the Clawson sale in 1926 for $500; some lines and small notes in multi-color ink by a reader looking to reveal from textual evidence proof that Francis Bacon was the author, 8 x 6 in.
Wing W-3160; ESTC R212378 (showing nine U.S. copies); Thomas E.269 [11]; rare at auction.
In this satirical work attributed to Wither (with scholarly doubt), a legal case has been put before the court. Bacon is the Chancellor of Parnassus, Sidney is the High Constable, Edmund Spenser the Clerk of Assizes. Jurors include Wither, Davenant, Drayton, Beaumont, Fletcher, Shakespeare, and other noted writers of the day. The "Malefactours" are a list of London newspapers.
