[Rarebooks] fa: JOHN DRYDEN - AN EVENING'S LOVE or THE MOCK-ASTROLOGER - 1691

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John Dryden: An Evening's Love: or, The Mock-Astrologer. As it is Acted by Their Majesties Servants. London: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold by Richard Bentley, at the Post-House in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, 1691. Quarto (22 cm) in modern wraps, printed spine label; [16], 63, [1] pp. ESTC R15472; Wing D2276; Woodward & McManaway 413.

An early printing of Dyden's prose comedy, first published in 1671, detailing the amorous adventures in Spain of two English gentlemen-tourists, Wildblood and Bellamy. Samuel Pepys was not a fan, describing the play as "very smutty." In the same vein, Robert Bell wrote, in his Annotated Edition of the English Poets (1854): "the state of society that could have endured the prologue to this must have renounced even the affectation of decency." Leaves with varying degrees of generally light browning, occasional scattered spots, small burn hole to the margin of two or three leaves, not affecting any text.