[Rarebooks] FS: First ed. of Dryden's "The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man" 1677

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Dryden, John. THE STATE OF INNOCENCE, AND FALL OF MAN: an Opera Written in 
Heroique Verse… London: T. N. for Henry Herringman. 1677. First edition. Sm. 
4to. (22),46pp. Bound in half-dark purple morocco over purple silk, circa 1900, 
signed by “The Atelier Bindery.” With the Bridgewater Library bookplate and 
the small leather bookplate of William Andrews Clark, Jr.     $1,000.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
See Macdonald #81a. With a prefatory 2-page poem to Dryden by Nathaniel Lee. 
Dryden’s preface contains a reference to Shakespeare.

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