Description:
Poetry, Four Titles in Four Volumes, 1682, 1694, 1704, and 1816. Including: Butler's Hudibras. The First Part. Written in the Late Wars, London: by T. Warren for Herringman, to be sold by Bentley, Tonson, Saunders, and Bennet, 1694, octavo, 221 pages, disbound; Butler's The Secret History of the Calves-Head Club, Complt. or, the Republican Unmask'd, London: Printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1705, octavo, disbound, half-title detached; Southey's The Lay of the Laureate. Carmen Nuptiale, London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816, octavo, paper boards, uncut, both boards detached; [and] Dryden's The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition, London: for Tonson, 1682, quarto, in parchment over boards. (4)
Estimate $100-200
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Carmen Nuptiale, Westminster, LondonJohn Dorfman
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