[Rarebooks] FS: Swinburne's copy with two pages of manuscript

[Charles Agvent]

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[SWINBURNE,  Algernon]  CAPELL, Edward (editor).  PROLUSIONS;  OR,
SELECT  PIECES OF ANTIENT POETRY,- COMPIL'D WITH GREAT CARE FROM THEIR
SEVERAL  ORIGINALS....  London: J. and R. Tonson 1760. First  Edition.
..AND  OFFER'D  TO  THE PUBLICK AS SPECIMENS OF  THE  INTEGRITY  THAT
SHOULD  BE  FOUND IN THE EDITIONS OF WORTHY AUTHORS,- IN THREE  PARTS;
CONTAINING,  I. THE NOTBROWNE MAYDE; MASTER SACKVILE'S INDUCTION; AND,
OVERBURY'S  WIFE: II. EDWARD THE THIRD, A PLAY, THOUGHT TO BE WRIT  BY
SHAKESPEARE:  III.  THOSE EXCELLENT DIDACTIC POEMS, INTITL'D  -  NOSCE
TEIPSUM,  WRITTEN  BY  SIR JOHN DAVIS: WITH A  PREFACE.  Small  octavo
(4-1/4"  x 6-1/2") bound in later full polished calf rebacked with the
original  gilt-decorated spine; [4], xii,23,(1),23,(1),13,(3),93,(15),
81,(3).  According to Dard Hunter (PAPERMAKING, p. 125), this title is
the  first  book printed on watermarked perfect wove paper. This  copy
particularly  notable as being poet Algernon Swinburne's copy with two
pages  (on  one leaf) of manuscript bound in at the end consisting  of
the  lines not printed within in Sackvile's INDUCTION from MIRROR  FOR
MAGISTRATES and containing @250 words. Fine                   $2000.00

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