MARVELL, Andrew (1621-78). Miscellaneous Poems. London: for Robert Boulter, 1681.
MARVELL, Andrew (1621-78). Miscellaneous Poems. London: for Robert Boulter, 1681.

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MARVELL, Andrew (1621-78). Miscellaneous Poems. London: for Robert Boulter, 1681.

2° (306 x 189mm). Engraved author portrait frontispiece, woodcut publisher's device on title. (Without initial blank, frontispiece in facsimile, washed, blank corner of L4 repaired.) Red morocco janseniste by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt edges. Provenance: Walter Hirst (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of the principal collection of Marvell's poems, edited by his widow and 'taken from exact copies, under his own handwriting, found since his death among his other papers'. Leaves S1 and X1 are cancels, necessitated by the suppression of 3 poems on Cromwell whose publication was thought to be impolitic. Grolier, Wither to Prior, 536; Hayward 126; Pforzheimer 671; Wing M-872.