Accession number
PML 129650
Creator
Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
Published
London : printed by J[ohn]. M[acock]. for Henry Herringman, at the sign of the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1674.
Description
[44], 41, [1], 80, [4], 58, 61-70, 154, 23, [1], 148 p. : port. ; (fol.)
Notes
Printer's name from Wing CD.
Frontis. portrait (pi1v) of the author signed: W: Faithorne sculp:
"The mistress", "Pindarique odes", and "Davideis, a sacred poem", each have separate dated title pages and pagination; register is continuous.
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Frontis. portrait (pi1v) of the author signed: W: Faithorne sculp:
"The mistress", "Pindarique odes", and "Davideis, a sacred poem", each have separate dated title pages and pagination; register is continuous.
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Binding
Full black morocco by Thomas Dawson the Elder of Cambridge, tooled in gilt to a panel design with a central lozenge formed of floral volutes and wild-strawberry tools, marbled flyleaves, all edges gilt.
Provenance
Bookstamp of the Bibliotheca Heberiana with Heber's note on the price, 17/6, on the front flyleaf. Inscribed by Baron Vernon (?), "This copy formerly belonged to Queen Caroline, wife of George II." Sold with the Holford library at Sotheby's in 1928 to G.
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