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Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Second Edition. 8vo. 1740. second edition. Edited Adrian Drift. Engraved frontis. 472pp. Some light browning throughout. Small area of worm damage affecting paste-downs and prelims.Hinges split internally but binding still sound. Full calf binding. Small worm holes affecting spine and boards,generally a little worn. Images available on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Leather-bound. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Second Edition. Later smooth calf. Spine ruled in gilt, with gilt title lettering.8" x 5 1/4" (21 cm.). viii + 472, [8] ) Index) Many letters relating to political and personal affairs, quoted in full. "When Prior was abroad Drift acted as his secretary and was a personal friend and one of the poet's executors" (Westminster Abbey site).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None Stated (illustrator). Two volumes of Matthew Prior's works, issued following his death and edited by the executor of Prior's will. ESTC No. T75984. Published in two volumes, with a separate title page to each volume but with an additional title page to volume I. With a frontispiece to 'Miscellaneous Works' (Volume II). Ex library, both volumes are in library cloth bindings, with shelf numbers gilt stamped to the spines. Lambeth public library plates to the front pastedowns. Matthew Prior was an English poet and diplomat remembered for contributing to the political newspaper, 'The Examiner'. Stylistically, Prior's poems vary and exude skill. He was full of witty turns, well-remembered allusions and his mastery of the octo-syllabic couplet. In full library cloth bindings. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Minor bumping to the head and tail of spines and to the extremities. Library bookplate to the front pastedowns, Lambeth Public Libraries. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with just the occasional spots. Very Good Indeed. book.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). Two volumes of works by Matthew Prior. Two leather bound volumes with gilt titles to the spine. Matthew Prior (July 21, 1664 September 18, 1721) was an English poet and diplomat. When Queen Anne died and the Whigs regained power, Prior was impeached by Robert Walpole and kept in close custody for two years (17151717). In 1709, he had already published a collection of verse. During this imprisonment, maintaining his cheerful philosophy, he wrote his longest humorous poem, Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. This, along with his most ambitious work, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, was published by subscription in 1718. Prior's poems show considerable variety, a pleasant scholarship and great executive skill. The most ambitious, i.e. Solomon, and the paraphrase of The Nut-Brown Maid, are the least successful. But Alma, an admitted imitation of Samuel Butler, is a delightful piece of wayward easy humour, full of witty turns and well-remembered allusions, and Prior's mastery of the octo-syllabic couplet is greater than that of Jonathan Swift or Pope. His tales in rhyme, though often objectionable in their themes, are excellent specimens of narrative skill; and as an epigrammatist he is unrivalled in English. In full calf bindings. There is some wear to the extremities including minor bumping to the corners, creasing to the spine and some slight rubbing to the leather. The bindings are tight and firm with all pages securely attached although the joints are cracked on both volumes. Internally the pages are clean and bright with the occasional handling mark and isolated spot. There are some water stains to several pages in Volume II. There are bookplates to the front pastedowns. Very Good. book.

Dublin, R. Reilly, 1740. 1 Bl., XI (recte IX), 336 S., 5 Bl. Leder d. Zeit (berieben, Innengelenke angebrochen). Die irische Ausgabe des Werks, welches die Rolle des Dichters u. Diplomaten (1664-1721) bei den diplomatischen Verhandlungen vor allem im Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg beleuchtet. Im Jahr der Londoner Erstausgabe. Herausgeber war J. Banks. - Gebräunt u. etwas fleckig, teils auch wasserrandig.