[Rarebooks] FS: The First Book Printed On Watermarked Perfect Wove Paper with Algernon Swinburne MANUSCRIPT, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1500 NET

[SWINBURNE, Algernon] CAPELL, Edward (editor). PROLUSIONS; OR, SELECT 
PIECES OF ANTIENT POETRY,- COMPIL'D WITH GREAT CARE FROM THEIR SEVERAL 
ORIGINALS 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. London: J. and R. 
Tonson, 1760. First Edition. Small octavo (4-1/4" x 6-1/2") bound in 
later full polished calf leather rebacked with the original 
gilt-decorated spine; [4], xii,23,(1),23,(1),13,(3),93,(15),81,(3). The 
only edition of this scarce book. 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. 
(#014503)        $2,000.00

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