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Catalogue of Antiquarian Books 1700-1900

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In our Catalogue this is Booknumber V61942

Author Waller,Edmund Waller
Title WORKS of EDMUND WALLER IN VERSE AND PROSE
PlacePub London
Publisher Tonson
Date 1758
Illustrations Frontispiece portrait
Description Small octavo contemporary full calf with 5 raised bands and gilt rules and maroon label (hinges cracking/tips worn and head & foot chipped) (Xiv)+272pp a neat copy. *After Cambridge Waller was elected to Parliament where he was a noted orator favouring the Royalists and plotting to oust the roundheads in what became known as Waller's Plot but this was discovered he was arrested, fined and exiled, returning only at the Restoration. He refined the heroic couplet, was a member of the Royal Society and held up as an example by Pope and Dryden. Best remembered for his lyric poems.
Booknumber V61942
Price Price: GBP 65.00 or USD 80.00
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