THE BIRTH OF THE MUSE. A Poem to the Right Honourable Charles Montague, Chancellour of the Exchequer

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Folio. [2], 10 pp. First edition. In 19th century flexible covers. Covers are generally worn and endpapers are toned; a fragment with an early catalogue description is affixed to the front free endpaper with offsetting to the pastedown; front cover with notable bend; the contents are generally toned and cockled with margins slightly darkened; last two leaves with holes affecting text--final leaf with loss of about 14 words and penultimate leaf only a few letters are touched by the loss; a small chip to the lower margin of each leaf. This copy with the bookplate of Spencer van Bokkelen Nichols on the front pastedown. A flawed but moderately uncommon first edition of on the most popular playwrights of the Restoration era. Congreve's tribute to poetical greatness as inspired by political accomplishment. Dedicated to Charles Montagu, first Earl of Halifax, a statesman and poet, this piece was written in honor of Montagu's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury. ESTC R29682 (which notes the work was actually printed in 1697); Pforzheimer 193. N° de ref. del artículo 8085

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