Lot 603: [WALSH, WILLIAM.]

Letters and Poems, amorous and gallant. For Jacob Tonson, 1692

8vo, first edition, title in red and black, contemporary mottled calf, binding very worn, joints partially split

Wing W647; Hayward 136

Belasyse Library, bookplate

Loosely inserted is a letter by Phyllis Freeman from the Royal Air Force Station, Abingdon, to John Brett-Smith, reporting that in the British Museum she has found a manuscript of Walsh, "containing some of his letters and poems (published) and a great many unpublished letters, mostly to the original of "Eugenia" (to whom he dedicated his Dialogue), and five or six to Dryden..." (28 March, no year).