[Rarebooks] fa: THE WORKS OF MR. JOHN CLEVELAND - Cambridge-Style Calf Binding - 1687

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John Cleveland: The Works of Mr. John Cleveland, containing his Poems, Orations, Epistles, collected into One Volume, with the Life of the Author. London: Printed by R. Holt, for Obadiah Blagrave, at the Bear and Star, over against the little North Door in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1687. First edition thus. Small 8vo (17.5 cm) in later Cambridge-style paneled calf, rebacked preserving spine, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, page edges dyed yellow; [22], 144, 143-189, [1], 193-514, [14] pp. (erratic pagination as issued); with a portrait frontispiece, 4 pp. of publisher's adverts at the rear. Wing C4654; ESTC R43102.

The collected works of the Cavalier poet John Cleveland (1613-1658), best known for his satirical verse (a strong influence on Samuel Butler) and his undying loyalty to the Stuart cause. Having joined the Royalist army at Oxford, "his sportive sallies of verse, his sound scholarship, and his frank, generous disposition made him a favourite not only with the learned but with the military... Unwearied in labours, inexhaustible in jests and playful sarcasms, he kept up the spirits of all around him" (DNB). "One of the most popular poets of the mid-17th century... much of his writing was political satire which is lost on the modern reader. The most celebrated work is 'The Rebel Scot' [included here], a satire on the Scottish invasion of 1644. His poetry shows extreme examples of metaphysical conceits" (ODNB).

Ex-library, but unobtrusively so, with a blind-stamp to the title-page, shelving label and bookplate to the front paste-down. Binding with wear to the edges, most pronounced at the top edge of the rear board; small chips to the extremities of the endpapers, frontispiece and title-page, generally mild toning to the leaves, occasional light spotting, a few penciled check marks in the margins, small hole to one leaf of the publisher's adverts, else clean and sound, firmly and attractively bound.