Engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page. [vi], 376, 72, 83-200 pp., lacking half-title and final blank
1662 · London
by [Brome, Alexander, editor]
London: Henry Brome and Henry Marsh, 1662. Second expanded edition of Ratts Rhimed to Death. Engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page. [vi], 376, 72, 83-200 pp., lacking half-title and final blank. Full nineteenth-century brown morocco extra, a.e.g., by Riviere. Frontispiece mounted, a few paper repairs, stains and toning, last leaf creased and worn. Second expanded edition of Ratts Rhimed to Death. Engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page. [vi], 376, 72, 83-200 pp., lacking half-title and final blank. Collection of anti-Parliamentary songs and poems (the title a reference to the Rump Parliaments of the English Civil War), first published in the slim volume Ratts Rhimed to Death (1660), then under the present title that same year and again here, much expanded with the addition of some 200 poems, including 20 by John Cleveland. ESTC R24238; Wing B4851; CaseĀ 128(c). Provenance: Edward Solly (bookplate); Harry Buxton Forman (bookplate and bibliographical note in pencil on flyleaf)
(Inventory #: 310132)