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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 2 vols. xiii, 240; vii, 279 p. 18 cm. Engraved title page vignettes of Cowley. Speckled leather. Gilt designs on spine with red and green spine labels. Corners bumped. Front endpaper of vol. 1 detached. Leather split on spine edges of volume 2. Spine heads slightly chipped. The works of Cowley were collected in 1668, when Thomas Sprat, afterwards bishop of Rochester, brought out a splendid edition in folio to which he prefixed a graceful and elegant life of the poet. There were many reprints of this collection which formed the standard edition until 1881. …