Astraea redux : a poem on the happy restoration & return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second / by John Driden.
1660
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Details
Title
Astraea redux : a poem on the happy restoration & return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second / by John Driden.
Uniform title
Astraea redux
Created/published
London : Printed by J.M. for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Blew-Anchor in the lower walk of the New-Exchange, 1660.
Description
15, [1] p. : coat of arms ; 29 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Dryden, John, 1631-1700, author.
Herringman, Henry, -1704, bookseller, publisher.
268- 803q item 5 Harcourt (Family : Stanton Harcourt (England)), former owner.
Herringman, Henry, -1704, bookseller, publisher.
268- 803q item 5 Harcourt (Family : Stanton Harcourt (England)), former owner.
Note
Leaf A1 recto is blank; royal coat of arms on A1 verso.
Variant states of C2r, line 30: first issue reads "Like glass we clearness mixt"; second issue: "And glass-like clearness mixt".
Signatures: [A]² B-D².
Variant states of C2r, line 30: first issue reads "Like glass we clearness mixt"; second issue: "And glass-like clearness mixt".
Signatures: [A]² B-D².
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue, R26913
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), D2244
Macdonald, H. John Dryden, 5a
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), D2244
Macdonald, H. John Dryden, 5a
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.
Item Details
Call number
D2244 copy 1
Folger-specific note
Dobell. Variant: MacDonald 5.a.i State ii. Untrimmed edges; stitched; unbound. Provenance: from the John Dryden collection formed by Percy J. Dobell
Call number
D2244 copy 2
Folger-specific note
Dobell. Manuscript markings on A1 and A2: "D", "Driden", "W.B", "The First Edition". Provenance: Britwell Court copy (MS. markings on rear endpaper: "Britwell 16.3.26") - Percy J. Dobell collection
Call number
268- 803q item 5
Folger-specific note
Second issue, with C2r reading: And glass-like clearness mixt. Anonymous armorial bookplate (motto: Le bon temps viendra) of the Harcourt family of Stanton Harcourt and Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire. Fragment of a leaf torn from an unidentified almanac inserted between items 9 and 10. In early speckled leather (sheepskin) inboard binding with later red leather spine label. Bound fifth in a volume of 10 items, mostly Restoration poetry. Numbered '5' in pencil on first leaf upper right by Folger staff. Acquired from Christopher Edwards, 2015-01-05, who acquired it at Sotheby's London sale (L14408), 09 December 2014, lot 16.
Folger accession
268803.5