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Auction archive: Lot number 13

''Had we but World enough, and Time...''

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$8,750
Auction archive: Lot number 13

''Had we but World enough, and Time...''

Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$8,750
Beschreibung:

"Had we but World enough, and Time..." Andrew Marvell, 1681 MARVELL, Andrew (1621-1678). Miscellaneous Poems . London: Robert Boulter 1681. First edition of the principal collection of Marvell's poems , edited by his widow and "taken from exact copies, under his own handwriting, found since his death among his other papers." His most famous poem, "To his Coy Mistress," appears on page 19, published here for the first time. With the gap in pagination and cancels as usual necessitated by the suppression of three impolitic poems on Cromwell. Grolier, Wither to Prior 536; Pforzheimer 671; Wing M-872. Folio (293 x 195mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece (partial 17th-century ownership inscription on verso). Modern morocco-backed boards.

Auction archive: Lot number 13
Auction:
Datum:
25 Oct 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

"Had we but World enough, and Time..." Andrew Marvell, 1681 MARVELL, Andrew (1621-1678). Miscellaneous Poems . London: Robert Boulter 1681. First edition of the principal collection of Marvell's poems , edited by his widow and "taken from exact copies, under his own handwriting, found since his death among his other papers." His most famous poem, "To his Coy Mistress," appears on page 19, published here for the first time. With the gap in pagination and cancels as usual necessitated by the suppression of three impolitic poems on Cromwell. Grolier, Wither to Prior 536; Pforzheimer 671; Wing M-872. Folio (293 x 195mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece (partial 17th-century ownership inscription on verso). Modern morocco-backed boards.

Auction archive: Lot number 13
Auction:
Datum:
25 Oct 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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