Poems, &c. Written upon several occasions, and to several persons: by Edmond Waller, Esq;. The sixth edition; with several additions, never before printed.
Edmund Waller (1606 - 1687)
Category
Books
Date
1694
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3004686
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 299, [5]; [4], 100 p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7538. Without blank first leaf; present instead is a frontispiece portrait of Waller aged 76, signed "P. Lely pinxit P. Vandrebanc sculp.", presumably from the 1693 edition. Part 2 in setting 1. Provenance: manuscript capital letter at head of front fly-leaf: "D". Manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf, heavily scribbled over in ink and obscured. Bookseller's codes on verso of title page and on rear fly-leaf. Text corrected in manuscript throughout. Binding: seventeenth-century blind-panelled calf; sewn on four raised bands; double blind fillet border, panel of single and double blind fillets with blind cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges; blind-tooling on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges. Printed waste (sheet with running title 'De oblationibus. Cap. LXXXVII.'') as pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Edmund Waller (1606 - 1687), author Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), author