Waller, Edmund.

The Works of Edmund Waller Esqr. In Verse and Prose Published by Mr. Fenton.

London; for J. Tonson, 1729. Large 4to. 1,A4,a4,B-3Z4,4A2 [18],450, xci,[1]p. First collected edition. Full leather with banded compartmented spine with title label and gilt decoration . Front cover detached. Spine chipped. Folded corner on p. 265, minor marginal dampstain on last three leaves. Port. after Kneller,3 full--pge plates, engraved vignette head and tail pieces, by George Vertue. "It is certain that the poems of Edmund Waller had been in circulation in manuscript some considerable time before their first publication. His lines on the escape of Charles (then Prince of Wales) from drowning, near Santander, though subsequently retouched, were probably written in or about the time of the event which they celebrate; but it was not until 1645 that the first edition of his poems was published. In spite of this, his reputation was already so well established that Denham wrote of him in ‘Cooper's Hill’ (1642) as ‘the best of poets,’ and it is probable that no writer, in proportion to his merits, ever received such ample recognition from his contemporaries. Waller will always live as the author of ‘Go, lovely rose,’ the lines ‘On a Girdle,’ and ‘Of the Last Verses in the Book;’ but it is difficult at this distance of time to realise the justice of the description of him upon his monument as ‘inter poetas sui temporis facile princeps.’ He no doubt owed a very large portion of his popularity to his social position, his personal charm of manner, and his remarkable eloquence."DNB. ESTC t101629. Wither to Prior, 941, "This edition...is also the most sumptuous ever published."

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