Description:
Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the Late Times. By the Most Eminent Wits, from Anno 1639 to Anno 1661. London: for Brome and Marsh, 1662. Octavo, engraved title and frontispiece (trimmed and inset),edited by Alexander Brome, this work is an expanded edition of Ratts Rhimed to Death; ex libris Edward Solly (1819-1886),the book collector, with his bookplate, bound in full gilt morocco extra, 6 x 3 3/4 in.
Estimate $300-500
A4, B-Z8, Aa-Nn8, Oo3. (lacking final blank Oo4).
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