Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Rochester, et al. Poems on Affairs of the State, 1697; and other volumes of state poems (5)

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Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Rochester, et al. Poems on Affairs of the State: From the Time of Oliver Cromwell, to the Abdication of K. James the Second, written by the greatest wits of the age, contributions from Milton, Dryden, Sprat, etc., 1697; another volume (vol. 4), from 1620 to 1707, contributions from Waller, Shakespeare, Tate, Hughes, etc., 1707, front hinges starting to crack, uniform contemporary calf re-backed, joints worn; Andrew Marvel and others, The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of the State, library bookplate, library stamp to verso of title, marginal worming (not affecting text), modern cloth-backed boards, edges uncut, 1689; and two other volumes of state poems, comprising A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs, 1705, front hinge cracked, and State-Poems; Continued, 1703, bookplates, light foxing and occasional browning, various bindings, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo and 4to, (5)

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