Lot 248: FLATMAN, THOMAS.

Four works:

Poems and Songs. S. and B.G[riffin]. for Benjamin Took, 1674, first edition, portrait inserted from a later edition, contemporary speckled calf gilt, lacking A1-2 (blank, and blank except for signature) and final blanks K7 and K8, slightly wormed at lower margin, some slight marginal staining, slight wear to binding; Poems and Songs. S. and B. G[riffin]. for Benjamin Took, 1676, second edition, later nineteenth-century red morocco gilt, Britwell arms on upper and lower covers, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, lacking D6, minor spotting at end; Poems and Songs. For Benjamin Tooke, 1682, third edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, two leaves at the end with errata and advertisements, early ownership signature of "James Robinson", book-label of Charles Whibley, contemporary calf, binding slightly worn; The Poems and Songs. For Benjamin Tooke, 1686, fourth edition, engraved frontispiece portrait, contemporary calf, ownership signature of Godfrey Copley ("London Nov: 1689") and his bookplate, [Hayward 131], worn on spine and edges; 8vo (4)

Wing F1151, F1152, F1153, F1154

[Poems and Songs, 1676:] Britwell Court Library, arms on upper and lower covers

The third and fourth editions have extra poems.