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Scarronnides: or. Virgile Travestie. A Mock-Poem. In Imitation of the fourth Book of Virgils Æneis in English, Burlesque …

London, Printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome … 1665.

8vo., pp. [2], 156, [3], with a terminal leaf blank except for Brome’s device; early manuscript attribution to title-page; a very good copy in contemporary sheep, spine chipped, paper label.

£250

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US $343  €291

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First edition of the second part of Cotton’s famous burlesque, an imitation of Aeneid book IV.

Wing C 6392.

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