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THE SCOTT GREENBAUM COLLECTION OF LITERARY FIRST EDITIONS
"Had we but World enough, and Time..."
Andrew Marvell, 1681
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"Had we but World enough, and Time..."
Andrew Marvell, 1681
MARVELL, Andrew (1621-1678). Miscellaneous Poems. London: Robert Boulter, 1681.
First edition of the principal collection of Marvell's poems, edited by his widow and "taken from exact copies, under his own handwriting, found since his death among his other papers." His most famous poem, "To his Coy Mistress," appears on page 19, published here for the first time. With the gap in pagination and cancels as usual necessitated by the suppression of three impolitic poems on Cromwell. Grolier, Wither to Prior 536; Pforzheimer 671; Wing M-872.
Folio (293 x 195mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece (partial 17th-century ownership inscription on verso). Modern morocco-backed boards.
Andrew Marvell, 1681
MARVELL, Andrew (1621-1678). Miscellaneous Poems. London: Robert Boulter, 1681.
First edition of the principal collection of Marvell's poems, edited by his widow and "taken from exact copies, under his own handwriting, found since his death among his other papers." His most famous poem, "To his Coy Mistress," appears on page 19, published here for the first time. With the gap in pagination and cancels as usual necessitated by the suppression of three impolitic poems on Cromwell. Grolier, Wither to Prior 536; Pforzheimer 671; Wing M-872.
Folio (293 x 195mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece (partial 17th-century ownership inscription on verso). Modern morocco-backed boards.
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