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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4th Edition. Miscellany Poems by John Dryden, 1716 Fourth Edition, London, Printed for Jacob Tonson. The Volumes are in Good Condition bound in gilt ruled english calf, with the spines divided into five, gilt stamped compartments by four raised bands, with letter-piece in the second compartment from the top, and with red speckled leaf edges. Externally the board and spines are lightly scuffed in general, with splits to numerous hinges, the final volume being the weakest, the front board holding by a cord, with chipping to the head and tail of many spines, and with the board corner bumped a bit. Internally the leaves are generally clean and amply margined, with some mild toning or foxing near the edges, and with little in the way of stains or tears otherwise. The Volumes are Complete in all respects and with frontispiece plates for each volume, conforming to MacDonald 49. The volumes are paginated as follows: Vol. I; [12], [i]-xxxvi, [viii], [1]-360. Vol. II; [xii], [5]-396 .Vol. III; [xii], [1]-380 .Vol. IV; [xii], [3]-420. Vol. V; [xii], [1]-396. Vol. VI; [xii], [1]-395, [1]. The volumes collate as follows: Vol. I;[x]1, A1-2, A*4, A3-12, a12, B8, C-Q12. Vol. II; [A]6, B-R12, S6. Vol. III; [A]6, B-R12, S6. Vol. IV; A6, B-S12, T6. Vol. V; A6, B-R12, S6. Vol. VI; A6, B-R12, S6. Each volume measures about 15.5 cm. By 9 cm. By 3 cm. Each leaf measures about 145 mm. By 85 mm. In the earlier part of his life, Jacob Tonson was much associated with John Dryden. A step which did much to establish his position was the publication in 1684 of a volume of Miscellany Poems, under Dryden's editorship. Other volumes followed in 1685, 1693, 1694, 1703, and 1708, and the collection, which was several times reprinted, is known as both as Dryden's Miscellany and Tonson's Miscellany. During the ensuing year Tonson continued to bring out pieces by Dryden, and on 6 October 1691 paid thirty guineas for all the author's rights in the printing of the tragedy of Cleomenes. Joseph Addison's Poem to his Majesty was published by Tonson in 1695, and there was some correspondence respecting a proposed joint translation of Herodotus by Boyle, Richard Blackmore, Addison, and others.More Images and/or Binding Spin Available.

Vol. I & II, 4th edition. Six volumes, engraved frontispiece to each volume. 12mo. Contemporary panelled calf, raised & gilt banded spines; lacking spine labels (replaced with simple gilt vol. numbers), minor cracks to some joints, sl. wear to head of four spines & tail of one, some light browning & occasional foxing. ESTC N6906 / N70161 / N49205 / N64834 / T214159 / T175048 Dryden himself credited his publisher Jacob Tonson (the Elder) with the idea of a new verse translation of Virgil and it was [their] partnership that established the direction of English literary translation in the later seventeenth century. [Tonson's] role in the publication of translations which went hand in hand with a series of monumental editions of the 'classics' of English literature and fine editions of Greek and Latin texts in the original languages - is an outstanding example of the conflation of astute commercialism with a sense of a national literary mission. The Poetical Miscellanies of 1684-1709 [were] an occasional series of fat volumes of new, mainly short poems by a wide range of hands, each containing a substantial proportion of translations principally from the classics, to which Dryden became the leading contributor and sometimes effectively editor. Allowing translators to select excerpts from the originals on the basis of their particular appeal reduced the danger of longeurs for both translator and reader, and the user-friendly miscellany format itself played an important role in mediating classical culture to a newly heterogeneous audience. ref: Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Vol. 3, pp40-41.

Six volumes bound in three, 12mo, pp. [ii], xxxvi, [xvi], 360; [x], 396; [x], xv, [i], 380; [x], 395; [x], 396; [x], 420; with an engraved frontispiece to each volume; nice bound in contemporary red morocco, panelled in gilt, spines gilt, dark green morocco labels (heads and tails of spines a little worn); marbled endpapers, gilt edges. First collected edition, and a highly important edition of what became known as 'Tonson's Miscellany'. The first two title-pages in this small-format printing bear the designation 'fourth edition', but in fact the contents of the six volumes have been significantly altered. In the sixth volume, for example, as Griffith points out in his bibliography of Pope, pp. 285-406 contain 46 poems which had not been included in 1709 (though Tonson had nothing new by Pope himself on offer). The fact that the title-pages all read 'publish'd by Mr. Dryden' is somewhat misleading. As Macdonald remarks in his bibliography of Dryden: 'This is something of a publisher's flourish, for although Tonson and Dryden were in close collaboration at any rate over Sylvae [Part II], Dryden probably acted rather as an occasional adviser in the four parts published during his lifetime than as the actual selector of his fellow poets This edition has no very close relation to the former volumes of Miscellanies. The pieces reprinted frequently occur in the corresponding volumes of the original editions, but often they are in different volumes and many poems of earlier date such as Milton's L'Allegro are included'. Among the other additions are fifteen poems by John Donne, none of whose verse had appeared in print for almost fifty years this miscellany is not noted by Keynes. Case 162 1e, 2e, 3d, 4c, 5b and 6b; Macdonald, Dryden, 49; Griffith, Pope, 81. Provenance. Engraved armorial bookplates of Robert Gunning in volumes I-II as a baronet, in volume III as plain Robert Gunning Esq. This must be Sir Robert Gunning (1731-1816), distinguished British diplomat, posted to Denmark and then Russia, who was made a baronet in 1778.