[Literature] Group of 5 17th-Century Titles

1. [Cleveland, John]
Clievelandi Vindiciae; or, Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, &c...
London: Printed for Obadiah Blagrave, 1677. First edition (issue with Blagrave's imprint). 16mo. Without front blank A1, as called for in Wither to Prior. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Cleveland, by Robert White. Full contemporary brown calf, red morocco spine label, decorated in blind and in gilt, front board starting, boards dry, extremities moderately worn; marbled edges; armorial book-plate of David Scott of Nether Benholm on front paste-down; contemporary inscription on front free endpaper and rear paste-down; old ownership signature on title-page in faded red ink; scattered light spotting and toning to text. Morris 27; Grolier, Wither to Prior 181.1; Wing C-4669; Lowndes, 481

2. Burnet, Gilbert
Some Passages of the Life and Death Of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester, Who died the 26th of July, 1680
London: Printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680. First edition (with corrected text). 16mo. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait. Full contemporary mottled calf, red morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, front board starting; red speckled edges; English tax stamp on front free endpaper. ESTC R223615; Wing B-5922

3. The Works of Mr. John Oldham, Together with his Remains
London: Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh, 1686. Second edition. 8vo. Full contemporary speckled brown calf, spine ends and extremities worn; all edges trimmed; contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; scattered spotting to text. ESTC R5146; Grolier, Wither to Prior 646; Wing O-226

4. (Thomas), Rymer
A Short View of Tragedy; It's Original, Excellency, and Corruption. With Some Reflections on Shakespear, and other Practitioners for the Stage
London: Richard Baldwin, 1693. First edition. 16mo. With ad leaf at rear; lacking front blank A1. Full contemporary brown calf, skillfully rebacked, red morocco spine label, decorated in blind and in gilt; red speckled edges; repaired library perforated stamp on title-page, same library perforated stamp on B1 and H3; worming in bottom edge of leaves at rear, some repairs at same. ESTC R17017; Pforzheimer 844; Wing R-2429

5. (Toland, John)
Amyntor: Or, a Defence of Milton's Life...
London: Sold by the Booksellers, 1699. First edition. 12mo. Sometime bound to style in full tan sheep, brown morocco spine label, decorated in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper, same worn and brittle; scattered wear and dampstaining along edges. ESTC R22638; Wing T-1760

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