Books and Manuscripts

(Dryden, John, et al.) 
Miscellany Poems…
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1684. Two parts in one volume (with: Sylvae: or, the Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies; Tonson, 1685). First edition of each part. 8vo. (viii), 328; (ii), 92; (xlii), 168, 353-494 pp. (erratic pagination, as issued); lacking M2 and χ1 in part one and Ii8 in part two. Illustrated with frontispiece of English Royal arms, possibly inserted at front. Full black morocco, red morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, sometime rebacked to style, boards and extremities rubbed, spine slightly dry; all edges trimmed; book-plate of English bibliographer and bookseller Graham Pollard on front paste-down, book-plate of Ian Jack below same; old ownership signature on verso of Royal Arms; soiling and wear to title-page; light to moderate foxing and soiling to text. Hammond, The Printing of the Dryden-Tonson Miscellany and Sylvae (1990)

First edition of Jacob Tonson's influential verse miscellanies, published under the supervision of John Dryden, with some contributions from him and others. Features new translations of Virgil's Ecolgues, Ovid's Love Elegies, the Odes of Horace, and more. Dryden and Tonson would together publish an additional five miscellanies by 1709.