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Wycherley, William (1640-1716) Miscellany Poems: as Satyrs, Epistles, Love-Verses, Songs, Sonnets, &c.
London: Printed for C. Brome, J. Taylor, and B. Tooke, 1704.
First edition, large paper copy, with the frontispiece mezzotint portrait of the poet at the age of twenty-eight engraved by John Smith (1652-1743) after Sir Peter Lely's (1618-1680) painted portrait, with the slip reading, "The End" pasted over the original, "The End of the First Volume," as no second volume was published; ex libris James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby (1664-1736) with his large engraved armorial bookplate dated 1702 pasted on verso of the title; bound in full contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, later endleaves and flyleaves, a very clean and well-preserved copy, 13 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
