Author: Lord roch---r [ie Lord Rochester=actually John Freke (1651-1717) + Mr.Ayloff
Title: THE HISTORY OF INSIPIDS A Lampoon by the Lord Roch---r with his FAREWELL 1680 together with MARVIL'S GHOST by Mr.Ayloff.
Description: London, H.Hills 1709 6 floral ornaments rather than 14 cf.Foxon 249 . sm. Octavo disbound. 16pp The top THE in the title is half cropped off and the page numbers of the last leaf are also partly affected the [15] or so than the [16]. Usual foxing/paper tanning and JV or possibly W in margin of first text leaf + two old ink corrections else neat. The Insipids are a satire of Charles II written some 30 years earlier in 1680 but only circulated in manuscript until it was printed, with other items, in a Miscellany. There are two editions of this 1709 printing one with 6 flower ornaments on the titlepage the other with 14.

Keywords: poetry poems political satire


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