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HERRICK, ROBERT Hesperides: or, The vvorks both humane & divine of Robert Herrick Esq. . London: printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the Crown and Marygold in Saint Pauls Church-yard, 1648-47. Full dark green morocco gilt by F.[rancis] Bedford, covers framed with three gilt fillets, spine in six compartments richly gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches (17 x 11 cm); [8], 398, [2], 79, [1] pp. (including frontispiece and errata), collating [A]^(4) B-Cc^(8) Aa-Ee^(8). Minor restorations to frontispiece (engraved by William Marshall and title (both of which may be inserted from another copy), overall a clean, wide-margined example, splendidly bound, the Cortlandt F. Bishop copy with his booklabel. A tall copy of this great work of English poetry. Herrick, who was the son of a goldsmith, studied at Cambridge. He was part of the circle of Ben Jonson, whose death he laments in at least two poems. He contributed one verse, anonymously, to the 1640 edition of Shakespeare's Poems. Pforzheimer, 468; ESTC R37415; Grolier Wither to Prior 441. C Property of a New York Lady