Poems And Songs; ............Together with The Plague of Athens, Which hapned in the Second year Of The Pelopnnesian War. First described in Greek By Thucidies; Then in Latine By Lucretius. Now attempted in English By Tho. Sprat. London. Printed for Joanna Brome. 1673. Three page inroduction: "To my Worthy and Learned Friend, Dr. Walter Pope, Late Proctor of the University of Oxford. 34 pages. Appears at the end of Poems And Songs..........
London: Printed for Benjamin Tooke, 1682. Third Edition. leather_bound. A8, a-b8, B-M8. [L8 is a cancel]. 170 pages. Engraved portrait by White after Hayls, with the final 2 leaves of errata and advertisements. Flatman divided his career between writing poetry (in which his earnest religious temperament is revealed) and painting portraits in miniature. One of the lesser Caroline poets. CBHL, p.88 Vol.7 notes, "the poet-painter Thomas Flatman, whose unlucky name by no means expresses his poetic quality..." He was also a miniature painter, one of his self-portraits is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A portrait of Charles II is in the Wallace Collection, London. This later edition contains seventy nine separate pieces, 16 more than the prevous edition. The portrait of Flatman appears here for the first time. WING. F1153. Bookplates of Kenneth Rapoport and Henry A. Sherwin one of the founders of the Sherwin-Williams paint Company in 1866. Interior contents generally clean. Spine with raised bands, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Cambridge style full brown calf rebacked. Very good. Item #24325
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