HEYRICK (THOMAS) Miscellany Poems, 1691
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HEYRICK (THOMAS)
Miscellany Poems, first edition, woodcut device on title, light dampstaining, ALFRED DENISON'S COPY, with his bookplate and manuscript note "a book of great rarity, not originally found in Lowndes..." on front free endpaper, contemporary gilt panelled calf, rebacked [Westwood & Satchell, p.118; Wing H1753; Hayward 134], small 4to, Cambridge, John Hayes, for the Author, 1691
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  • SCARCE. Includes "A pindarique poem in praise of angling. To my worthy friend Mr. Thomas Bateman" (pp.101-110), exulting the art of angling; "Sometimes with patient skill/We watch the motion of our trembling quill/No force, nor tyranny we use/Each fish, or may accept, or may refuse...". Amongst the opening commendatory verses is one by Theophilus Judd "To his ingenious friend, and brother angler, Mr. Thomas Heyrick".

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