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12mo, 171 x 100 mms., pp. [ii], viii, [3] - 172, engraved portrait of Rochester as frontispiece, and engraved plates at pages 29, 67, and 132 (for "The Disappointment"); [AND]: Poems by the Earls of Roscomon and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. Vol. II. Printed for the Principal Booksellers in Town and Country [no date], [1800]. 12mo, 171 x 100 mms., pp.[3] - 180, engraved portrait of Roscommon as frontispiece, engraved plates at pages 54, 142, 143, and 159, paper water-marked 1798, with notes on end-papers and an old catalogue slip from London bookseller, with pre-decimal price of £18.10s. pasted to rear free end-paper. 2 volumes in 1, contemporary calf, black leather label; joints slightly weak, base of spine defective, spine a bit creased. The plates first appeared, so far as I can tell, in and edition of 1739. Rochester's text has been sanitized, of course, and differs from the texts found in The Gyldenstolpe Manuscript Miscellany of Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and other Restoration Authors, edited by David M. Vieth and Bror Danielson (1967), and which Vieth used as the copy-text for his edition of Rochester's poems in 1962. Harold Love, in his article "Rochester: A Tale of Two Manuscripts" in The Yale University Library Gazette (1997), notes that circulation in manuscript was the chief means by which Rochester's poems were "published." This particular miscellany or anthology was one of the most popular collections of verse in the 18th century and was first published in 1707. A previous owner of this copy, with a bibliographical eye, has noted in pencil that this copy is "Complete, with 2 frontispieces & 7 plates"; that this is a "Very scarce edition"; and, most interestingly, claims that "18 Cent editions, when offered, usually have fewer plates". ESTC T14673 locates copies in BL and Bodleian; and North Carolina, Yale, and British Columbia. Seller Inventory # 9734
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