Lot 191
Wither (George) An Improvement Of Imprisonment, Disgrace, Poverty, into Real Freedom; Honest Reputation; Perdurable Riches; Evidenced in a few Crums & Scraps Lately found in a Prisoners-Basket at Newgate, first edition, 1661.
Hammer Price: £1,900
Description
Wither (George) An Improvement Of Imprisonment, Disgrace, Poverty, into Real Freedom; Honest Reputation; Perdurable Riches; Evidenced in a few Crums & Scraps Lately found in a Prisoners-Basket at Newgate, first edition, title within typographic border, errata leaf at end, H4 with tear into text, G2 lower corner defective with loss of catchword, several ink corrections, some foxing and soiling, later half roan, [Wing W3163; Grolier 1066], 8vo, 1661.
⁂ Scarce work written while Prior was in prison at Newgate for 3 years. According to Aubrey's Brief Lives, Wither owed his life to the intervention of Sir John Denham, after he was captured by Royalist forces in 1642. Denham apparently stated that "Whilest G. W. lived, he [Denham] should not be the worst poet in England".
Description
Wither (George) An Improvement Of Imprisonment, Disgrace, Poverty, into Real Freedom; Honest Reputation; Perdurable Riches; Evidenced in a few Crums & Scraps Lately found in a Prisoners-Basket at Newgate, first edition, title within typographic border, errata leaf at end, H4 with tear into text, G2 lower corner defective with loss of catchword, several ink corrections, some foxing and soiling, later half roan, [Wing W3163; Grolier 1066], 8vo, 1661.
⁂ Scarce work written while Prior was in prison at Newgate for 3 years. According to Aubrey's Brief Lives, Wither owed his life to the intervention of Sir John Denham, after he was captured by Royalist forces in 1642. Denham apparently stated that "Whilest G. W. lived, he [Denham] should not be the worst poet in England".
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