Huth copy.- Marvell (Andrew) Miscellaneous Poems, first edition, printed [by Simon Miller?] for Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head in Cornhill, 1681.

Huth copy.- Marvell (Andrew) Miscellaneous Poems, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut printer's device to title, without, as usual, R2-T1 and U2-T4 (suppressed poems on Cromwell), S1 and X1 replacing these, neat marginal restoration to portrait, occasional spotting, polished calf by F. Bedford, upper joint splitting, but holding, rubbed, g.e., [Wing M872; Grolier Wither to Prior 536; Hayward 126; Pforzheimer 671], folio, printed [by Simon Miller?] for Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head in Cornhill, 1681.

⁂ First edition of the principal collection of Marvell's poems, edited by his widow Mary Marvell. In her prefatory address she writes: 'These are to Certifie every Ingenious Reader, that all these Poems, as also the other things in this Book contained, are Printed according to the exact Copies of my late dear Husband, under his own Hand-Writing, being found since his Death among his other Papers...'). Includes the first printing of 'To his Coy Mistress'.

Provenance: Henry Huth; Robert Herring; Brian Fenwick-Smith (bookplates).