The works of John Oldham, together with his remains.

A$550 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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London : printed for Jo. Hindmarsh, bookseller to his Royal Highness, at the Black Bull in Cornhil, 1684 [and 1685]. First collected edition. Four parts in one volume, octavo (190 mm), contemporary full calf (boards scuffed), spine with raised bands, gilt decoration and contrasting leather title piece lettered in gilt; pp. [8], 148 ( Satyrs upon the Jesuits ; in this part, The Passion of Biblis has a separate title page dated 1685), [8], [2 blank], 134 ( Some new pieces never before publish d ), [2 blank], [6], 215 ( Poems, and translations ), [1 blank], [24], 130 ( Remains of Mr. John Oldham in verse and prose ; in this part, the pagination skips from 80 to 83, and To the memory of Mr. Charles Morwent and Character of a certain ugly old p- have separate title pages); hinges cracked, top edges closely trimmed (but no loss of text), some worming to lower margins of leaves in the first part, mild damp staining to fore-edges of a few leaves in the last part, otherwise internally excellent. The first collected edition of the works of English satirical poet and translator John Oldham (1653-1683) was published posthumously, not long after his death from smallpox in December 1683. It contains his satires against the Jesuits, written in 1678-9 at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was being stirred up in England by the so-called Popish plot the totally fictitious but widely believed rumour of a Jesuit conspiracy to assassinate King Charles II in order to bring his Roman Catholic bro

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