Catalogue of the distinguished library of English literature, history and criticism, the property of the late Colonel C.H. Wilkinson, O.B.E., M.C., T.D. Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford . . The second portion.[ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 27-29 March 1961 ].

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Green printed wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm, 150 pp, 2 plates, ills. Lots 553 -1297. Among the highlights noted were the following: First editions of the Jacobean, Caroline and Restoration Dramatists; Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Poetry, including rare poetical miscellanies, first editions of Pope and Swift, and an unrecorded poem by Edward Young, An Epistle to Lord Bolingbroke, 1714; Poetical broadsides collected by Narcissus Luttrell, including the Volume known as "Poetry Longwaies" containing first editions of the Earl of Rochester's Satyr Against Mankind, [1679], Female Excellence, 1679, A Letter from Artemiza, [1679], Upon Nothing, [1679], the Enjoyment, [1679], etc.; The Collection of Drolleries, and Books on Rogues, Cheats, Highwaymen and Pirates; Ballad Literature and Modern Verse including an extensive collection of the first editions of Robert Bridges; An almost complete collection of the productions of the Daniel Press; Bibliographical reference books, etc. Some pencil prices and notes , a little worn at head of spine, otherwise Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names laid in. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-49276

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