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Creator:
Wycherley, William, 1640–1716
Title(s):
The complete works of William Wycherley / edited by Montague Summers.
Additional Title(s):
Works. 1924
Published/Created:
Soho : The Nonesuch Press, 30 Gerrard Street, W., MCMXXIV [1924]
Physical Description:
4 volumes : 26 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3771 .S86 1924
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This edition was printed and made in England in the summer of 1924. It is limited to nine hundred sets of four volumes on antique paper (numbered seventy-six to nine hundred and seventy-five), and seventy-five sets of four volumes on English hand-made paper (numbered one to seventy five)."--Volume 1. Verso of title page.
Dreyfus, J. History of the Nonesuch Press, 17
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 13 of a limited edition of 975 copies. One of 75 on English hand-made paper. Bound in quarter vellum with beige and brown batik paper covered boards.
Subject Terms:
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Wycherley, William, 1640–1716.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
Contributors:
Summers, Montague, 1880–1948, editor.
Nonesuch Press, publisher.
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  • v. 1. Prefatory note. Note as to the text. Introduction. Love in a wood. The gentleman dancing-master
  • v. 2. The country wife. The plain dealer. Letters. Epistles in verse
  • v. 3. Miscellany poems
  • v. 4. Miscellany poems concluded. Miscellaneous poems published from more correct copies. Hero and Leander in burlesque. The posthumous works.

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