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DRYDEN, JOHN. Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, M.DC.LXVI. An Historical Poem. Also a Poem of the Happy Restoration and Return of His Late

DRYDEN, JOHN. Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, M.DC.LXVI. An Historical Poem. Also a Poem of the Happy Restoration and Return of His Late Sacred Majesty Charles the Second. Likewise a Panegyrick on His Coronation. [10], 116 pages * Threnodia Augustalis: A Funeral-Pindarique Poem Sacred to the Happy Memory of King Charles II... Second Edition. [2], 25 pages * Britannia Rediviva: A Poem on the Birth of the Prince. [2], 20, [1] pages. Together, 3 volumes in one. 4to, modern 1/2 calf; old signatures on first title, blank corner off B1. London: Henry Herringman for Jacob Tonson, 1688; Jacob Tonson, 1685; J. Tonson, 1688 [i. e., 1691]

  • Notes: "This edition of Annus Mirabilis and the other pieces given on the title-page form the first collected edition of Dryden's poems" (Macdonald, page 15); Threnodia Augustalis and other poems were sometimes bound with it, as here, to expand the collection. Macdonald 9c, 20b, 27c; Wing D2240, D2384, D2253.

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