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Lot 601
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[Waller, Edmund]--

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Description

  • [Waller, Edmund]--
Poems To The Memory Of that Incomparable Poet Edmond Waller Esquire. By Several Hands. For Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders, 1688

Provenance

Stainforth, bookplate; Edmund Gosse, bookplate

Literature

Wing P2724; Case 185

Catalogue Note

Contributors comprise Sir John Cotton, Sir Tho. Higgons, T. Rymer, George Granville, Bevill Higgons and Aphra Behn.

The autograph manuscript of Aphra Behn's contribution to this commemorative volume, sent by her to Waller's daughter-in-law, was sold at Sotheby's on 21 July 1981, lot 441, and is now in the Pierpont Morgan Library.