Item #64696 Mourning Muse of Alexis. William CONGREVE.
Mourning Muse of Alexis.

Mourning Muse of Alexis. A Pastoral. Lamenting the Death of our late Gracious Queen Mary Of ever Blessed Memory.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695.

CONGREVE, William. The Mourning Muse of Alexis. A Pastoral. Lamenting the Death of our late Gracious Queen Mary Of ever Blessed Memory. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1695.

First edition. Small folio (11 3/4 x 7 7/16 inches; 299 x 189 mm).[2]. 10, pp.

Unbound, inserted in newer purple paper wrappers. With a printed paper label. Light foxing to title-page. Very good.

"This is one of the best of many elegiac pieces published on Mary's death." (Pforzheimer, 207).

HBS 64696.

$400.

Price: $400.00

Item #64696

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