GOLDSMID, Edmund – Bibliotheca Curiosa. Some political satires of the seventeenth century. Selected from the Writings of the earl of rochester, sir john denham, and andrew marvel.

GOLDSMID, Edmund. Bibliotheca Curiosa. Some political satires of the seventeenth century. Selected from the Writings of the earl of rochester, sir john denham, and andrew marvel..

Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1885. Limited edition.

8vo. Two volumes bound as one. 62; 73pp, [1]. Title pages in red and black. With half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, marbled boards. Marbled endpapers, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, with some surface loss to head of spine and lower board. Book-label of G.F.J. Elliot to FEP. Spotting to blank fly-leaves.

Two volumes of Seventeenth Century political satires compiled by antiquary Edmund Goldsmid (1849-1894), of which each volume was 'limited to 275 small-paper copies, and 75 large-paper copies'. The burlesque writings within were composed by notorious parodists Rochester, Dunham and Marvell, famed for their irreverent poetry.

£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref: 34542