Name: Auction: COWLEY, ABRAHAM THE WORKS
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 300 GBP
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London: for Henry Herringman, 1681. Seventh edition, 4to, engraved frontispiece portrait, contemporary calf, a few very small wormholes in inner margin at end, 3pp. interesting contemporary manuscript annotations at end, quoting Abrahamus Couleus, 2 stanzas of a poem "While round the Globe your glorious labours flye, Secure of such a fame as Cannot dye.." and a 26 line poem "An Answer to the Second Anacriontique or Mr Cowly ii Drinking, p.32:  <br/>"The parched earth (who one would think)<br/> Its dusty throat required most drink)<br/>Wets but its lips, & parts the showers<br/>Among one thousand plants & flowers..."  ("Dr Arthur Bury Rector of Exeter Coll. in Oxford is supposed to be the Authour", "ex libris Petri Newte 1684" on title

COWLEY, ABRAHAM

THE WORKS

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