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Taylor, John (1580-1653) All the Workes of Iohn Taylor, the Water Poet Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into One Volume by the Author. London: Printed by I[ohn] B[eale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop, and Thomas Fawcet] for Iames Boler, 1630. First collected edition, folio, engraved title signed T. Cockson, illustrated with twenty-five text woodcut portraits of English monarchs; bound in full contemporary speckled calf, gilt-tooled spine with label (neat repairs to endcaps, cloth ties lost),ex libris Lyonel Tollemache, with his signature; contents with some closed tears, water staining, folded corners, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.
A-N6 (C1 & C6 in duplicate, the two missing leaves, C2 & C5 inserted from another copy),O2, Aa-Qq6, Rr4, Ss2, Aaa-Iii6, Kkk8 (leaves bound out of order, and with bifolium Kkk3 & Kkk4 in duplicate),Aaa-Lll6, Mmm8.
http://estc.bl.uk/S117734
Estimate $5,000-7,000
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