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Wither (George) The Great Assises

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first edition, title within typographic border (slightly trimmed at lower and fore-edges), D3 pagination shaved, later half calf, rubbed, extremities worn, head of spine chipped, lower inch of backstrip almost detached, [Grolier 1048; Wing W3160], 4to, by Richard Cotes, for Edward Husbands, 1645.

***Rare. Only the Corser-Huth-White-Slater copy has appeared at auction in the last 30 years (1982, $950). Includes mention of several important early English writers. In the work the newspapers are arraigned and condemned before Apollo and a jury. Wither is foreman and other jurors include Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Haywood, Davenant and Massinger; the judges include Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Philip Sidney, Erasmus, Selden, Grotius and Barclay; Ben Jonson is the jailer and Edmund Spencer the clerk..

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