FLETCHER, Thomas.

£4,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Poems On several Occasions, and Translations: First edition, a most attractive copy with a distinguished provenance."The first book of the Aeneid is translated in heroic couplets, part of the second and also part of the fourth in blank verse. The volume also contains a translation of the second epode of Horace, and of part of the first book of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiæ, some verses to Bishop Ken, a 'pastoral' on the birth of Christ, and some other pieces" (ODNB).Provenance: A. Norreys, contemporary ownership signature to title page - Lord Abingdon, 18th-century note on front free endpaper - Richard Heber, his sale, Evans, 12 December 1834, lot 829 - S. R. Christie-Miller, Britwell Court sale, Sotheby's London, 13 March 1923, lot 284 - Richard Jennings, his sale, Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 195 - Allerton C. Hickmott (recorded in subsequent sale) - Robert S. Pirie, acquired from Seven Gables, 1962, with his bookplate - his sale Sotheby's, 2 December 2015, lot 377 - to Stephen Massey via Peter Harrington.

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