Dorset Earls (1 results)
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- Hardcover
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United KingdomMcConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Half morocco, 7 inches tall. A neat and simple late Victorian binding with raised bands and gilt titles and top edge. No.1 in a series entitled 'Rochester Series of Reprints, limited to 100 copies, was printed privately owing to the erotic and bawdy nature of the verse. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Roches…ter is considered the most learned among the Restoration wits and was censored throughout the Victorian period, appearing only occasionally in print in such privately printed works as this.