1660, Cleaveland Revived

Updated August 6, 2026

Lot number21
Auction1066: Rare Books & Bookworm, ONLINE-ONLY Sale
DateAugust 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT
Auction houseAddison & Sarova Auctioneers
LocationSocial Circle, Georgia

Estimate: 50 / 500 Cleveland, John. J. CLEAVELAND REVIVED: POEMS, ORATIONS, EPISTLES, AND OTHER OF HIS GENUINE INCOMPARABLE PIECES. WITH SOME OTHER EXQUISITE REMAINS OF THE MOST EMINENT WITS OF BOTH THE UNIVERSITIES THAT WERE HIS CONTEMPORARIES. Second edition. London: Printed for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill, 1660. 16no. [10], 190 pp., including frontis portrait. Binding with only one board present, front endpaper with old armorial bookplates of Bridgewater Library. The second edition of one of the principal posthumous collections of the works of the Royalist poet and satirist John Cleveland, one of the best-known English metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century. Published two years after his death, the volume gathers his poems, speeches, letters, and other writings, together with contributions by contemporary university wits. This enlarged edition advertises numerous additions not previously printed, including Midsummer-Moon, or Lunacy-Rampant. Condition: Binding heavily worn and missing rear board, contents Good with some light foxing.

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