Matthew Prior´s Poems 1718
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5 000-6 000 SEK
Beskrivning
(PRIOR, MATTHEW). Poems on several occasions. London (printed for Jacob Tonson and John Barner) 1718.
Folio (350x218 mm.). (40, including list of subscribers), (1)-506, (6) pp. Engraved frontispiece (close cut in upper margin), title with engraved vignette, 26 engraved head- and tailpieces, 14 engraved initials.
Contemporary brown calf, worn, blindtooled frames, inkspots on lower board, mended corners, mended in the joints, faded gilt spine in seven compartments, mended at head and foot, cracks in the hinges, redspeckled edges. Minor foxing.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721), probably the most important poet writing in England between the death of John Dryden (1700) and the poetic maturity of Alexander Pope (about 1712).
PROVENANCE
IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg, Gothenburgh, Sweden.
Auktionsnummer:
6074
Datum:
2016-12-20