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8vo, 171 x 100 mms., pp. [xxiv], 144, 143 - 185[183 numbered 179], 182 - 183. 188- 189, 186. 193 - 514 [515 - 524 Table of Contents, 525 - 528 adverts, complete despite the rather confusing misnumbering of pages, engraved portrait of Cleveland as frontispiece, bound in early 18th century calf, gilt borders on spine, expertly rebacked with old gilt spine with red morocco label laid down. A very good copy, with an armorial bookplate without name on the front paste-down end-paper, and "Jno Buzzard" on the top margin of the title-page. In his ODNB entry on Cleveland, A. D. Cousins notes, " Cleveland's works proved tremendously successful. Poems by J. C. with Additions, first published in 1651, was reprinted in 1653, 1654, 1656, 1657, 1659, 1661, 1662, 1665, and 1669. Other volumes of his poetry and prose were published in 1658, 1659, 1677, and 1687. Yet another indication of his popularity is the many works not by Cleveland that were published under his name by booksellers keen to exploit his fame." Assessing Cleveland's poetry and his reputation, he concludes that the "decline of his reputation, so high during Cleveland's lifetime, had already begun by this point. His use of catachresis, and the influence of that use, were attacked in Dryden's An Essay of Dramatick Poesie, 'that which the world has blam'd in our satyrist Cleveland; to express a thing hard and unnaturally, is his new way of Elocution'. Dryden also observed that Cleveland expressed 'common thoughts in abstruse words' (J. Dryden, Essay of Dramatick Poesie, 1668, 42 4). The disparagement just quoted is, however, almost immediately followed by praise for lines 63 4 of 'The Rebell Scot'. Samuel Johnson famously added to Dryden's dispraise of Cleveland in his 'Life of Cowley'. The revival of Cleveland's reputation in more recent times effectively dates from Berdan's edition of the poems in 1903." ESTC R32541, with several notes, "Dedication signed: J.L. S.D., i.e. John Lake and Samuel Drake, the editors. Bookseller's name from 1687 edition. The page after p. 189 is numbered 186. "John Cleaveland's revived poems, orations, epistles" and "The rustic rampant" each have separate dated title page, each with imprint dated 1687; pagination and register are continuous. A reissue, with title page reset, of the 1687 edition.". Seller Inventory # 9733
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