Lot 320
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[Walsh, William]
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
£1,000
Description
Letters and Poems, amorous and gallant. London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1692. First edition, 8vo, pp. [16], 120, title-page printed in red and black, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, early armorial bookplate of the Bellasyse library (Viscount Fauconberg), [Wing W 647; Hayward 136]
Footnote
Note: First edition of Walsh's second work. Walsh (1662-1708) was one of Dryden's circle of wits at Will's Coffee House and a mentor to the young Pope with whom he continued a long literary correspondence. Pope acknowledged his debt to Walsh with some flattering lines in his Essay on Criticism, (1711).