Poems
J[ohn]. D[awson]. for Thomas Walkley 1640.
First edition, the earliest state of the text with the errata on A2 recto with six lines and leaf G7 uncancelled, with a G7 cancellans from another copy loosely inserted. 8vo. Contemporary brown mottled calf, lettered and decorated in gilt to the spine. A fine copy with a little wear to the spine ends and scuffing to the calf on the front board. Internally exceptionally fresh with bookplates to the front pastedown. A superb, crisp unsophisticated copy.
The exceptional Newton - Houghton copy of Carew's important and influential collection of Cavalier poetry collected with his most famous work, the masque, Coelum Brittanicum, which was first performed at the court of Charles I in 1633. It is one of only five known copies with leaf G7 uncancelled.
"This attractive collection appears to be rarer than is generally supposed, certainly rarer than either Lucasta or Hesperides, both uncommon books" (Hayward).
E. Marion Cox (described in The Library, 3rd series VII (1816), p. 158); A. Edward Newton (bookplate; sold his sale Parke-Bernet, 1941); Arthur A. Houghton (bookplate; his sale Christie's, 1979, for £1500).
Hayward 76.
Stock ID: 45454
£15,000.00
