Alexander (William, Earl of Stirling) Recreations with
Alexander (William, Earl of Stirling) Recreations with the Muses, first edition, woodcut title foxed, trimmed and mounted, engraved portrait from another work bound in as frontispiece, divisional title to Dooms-Day repaired, Y5 possibly supplied from another copy, a few short tears, damp-stain to lower margin through much of book, occasionally encroaching on text, making paper brittle in places, some foxing, modern half calf over marbled boards, [STC 347; Pforzheimer 5], folio, Printed by Tho. Harper, 1637.
⁂ The first collected edition of Alexander's poetry and plays. The portrait is rarely present and the majority of copies appear to have been issued without it.
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Alexander (William, Earl of Stirling) Recreations with the Muses, first edition, woodcut title foxed, trimmed and mounted, engraved portrait from another work bound in as frontispiece, divisional title to Dooms-Day repaired, Y5 possibly supplied from another copy, a few short tears, damp-stain to lower margin through much of book, occasionally encroaching on text, making paper brittle in places, some foxing, modern half calf over marbled boards, [STC 347; Pforzheimer 5], folio, Printed by Tho. Harper, 1637.
⁂ The first collected edition of Alexander's poetry and plays. The portrait is rarely present and the majority of copies appear to have been issued without it.
