AYLETT, Robert (c. 1582-1655).] A Wife not Ready Made but Bespoken ... in four pastorall eclogues. The second edition. London: A.R., 1653. 8° (169 x 105mm). [6], 26, [2]p. In verse. (Title browned at lower margin and with some restoration at edges, tiny hole in title and following leaf, some leaves close cut.) Brown morocco by Riviere, panelled in gilt and blind, gilt edges (booklabel removed from pastedown). Provenance : attribution to Aylett made on title in an early hand.
AYLETT, Robert (c. 1582-1655).] A Wife not Ready Made but Bespoken ... in four pastorall eclogues. The second edition. London: A.R., 1653. 8° (169 x 105mm). [6], 26, [2]p. In verse. (Title browned at lower margin and with some restoration at edges, tiny hole in title and following leaf, some leaves close cut.) Brown morocco by Riviere, panelled in gilt and blind, gilt edges (booklabel removed from pastedown). Provenance : attribution to Aylett made on title in an early hand. EARLIEST KNOWN EDITION. Although this work was entered in the Stationers' register in 1633, no editon is recorded before the present 'second edition' of 1653. The pastoral dialogues between Dicus, Tityrus, and other shepherds on the pleasures and pitfalls of marriage are spirited and amusing. However, as Aylett marrried three times, there is no doubting on which side he stands, the poem forming a eulogy on his second wife, Judith Gaell, who had died in 1623. This copy has an extra leaf at the end, not called for by ESTC, containing the poem 'A Christmas-Carol. 1645'. RARE. ESTC records 8 copies, only 2 in the British Isles. Hazlitt 5; Lowndes I, 89; Wing A-4285; not in Grolier Wither to Prior .
AYLETT, Robert (c. 1582-1655).] A Wife not Ready Made but Bespoken ... in four pastorall eclogues. The second edition. London: A.R., 1653. 8° (169 x 105mm). [6], 26, [2]p. In verse. (Title browned at lower margin and with some restoration at edges, tiny hole in title and following leaf, some leaves close cut.) Brown morocco by Riviere, panelled in gilt and blind, gilt edges (booklabel removed from pastedown). Provenance : attribution to Aylett made on title in an early hand.
AYLETT, Robert (c. 1582-1655).] A Wife not Ready Made but Bespoken ... in four pastorall eclogues. The second edition. London: A.R., 1653. 8° (169 x 105mm). [6], 26, [2]p. In verse. (Title browned at lower margin and with some restoration at edges, tiny hole in title and following leaf, some leaves close cut.) Brown morocco by Riviere, panelled in gilt and blind, gilt edges (booklabel removed from pastedown). Provenance : attribution to Aylett made on title in an early hand. EARLIEST KNOWN EDITION. Although this work was entered in the Stationers' register in 1633, no editon is recorded before the present 'second edition' of 1653. The pastoral dialogues between Dicus, Tityrus, and other shepherds on the pleasures and pitfalls of marriage are spirited and amusing. However, as Aylett marrried three times, there is no doubting on which side he stands, the poem forming a eulogy on his second wife, Judith Gaell, who had died in 1623. This copy has an extra leaf at the end, not called for by ESTC, containing the poem 'A Christmas-Carol. 1645'. RARE. ESTC records 8 copies, only 2 in the British Isles. Hazlitt 5; Lowndes I, 89; Wing A-4285; not in Grolier Wither to Prior .
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