Lot 94
Corbet (Richard) Poëtica Stromata or a Collection of Sundry Peices in Poetry, second edition, 1648.
Hammer Price: £600
Description
C[orbet] (R[ichard], Bishop of Oxford and Norwich) Poëtica Stromata or a Collection of Sundry Peices in Poetry: Drawne by the known and approved Hand of R.C., second edition, with final contents leaf, contemporary ink signature of Ann Dutton at head of title and author's name supplied in manuscript (at first mistakenly), old ink annotation to foot of pp.40-41, cropped, inscriptions erased from pastedowns, later half calf, green roan label, rubbed, [Wing C6272], small 8vo, n.p. [France or Holland], 1648.
⁂ First edition under this title, originally published as Certain Elegant Poems in 1647, and with several poems added. It was published posthumously and probably printed on the Continent.
Description
C[orbet] (R[ichard], Bishop of Oxford and Norwich) Poëtica Stromata or a Collection of Sundry Peices in Poetry: Drawne by the known and approved Hand of R.C., second edition, with final contents leaf, contemporary ink signature of Ann Dutton at head of title and author's name supplied in manuscript (at first mistakenly), old ink annotation to foot of pp.40-41, cropped, inscriptions erased from pastedowns, later half calf, green roan label, rubbed, [Wing C6272], small 8vo, n.p. [France or Holland], 1648.
⁂ First edition under this title, originally published as Certain Elegant Poems in 1647, and with several poems added. It was published posthumously and probably printed on the Continent.