[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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