LOVELACE, Richard (1617-ca 1657). Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. To Which is Added Aramantha, A Pastorall. London: Thomas Harper for Thomas Ewster, 1649.
LOVELACE, Richard (1617-ca 1657). Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. To Which is Added Aramantha, A Pastorall. London: Thomas Harper for Thomas Ewster, 1649. 8 o (142 x 84 mm). Engraved allegorical title-page by William Faithorne after Peter Lilly (Johnson, Faithorne no. 4), engraved portrait of a lady (Lucasta) by the same, preceding "Aramantha" at p. 145), title-page in red and black, verse dedication "To the Right Honourable, my Lady Anne Lovelace" (2pp.), commendatory verses in praise of Lovelace (one by Andrew Marvell), table of contents (2pp.) at end. (Lacking blank leaves A4 and M4, minor soiling to a few pages.) Early 19th-century red-brown diced russia, covers blind-tooled with narrow lozenges, greek-key borders, edges gilt (neatly rebacked, preserving original spine); cloth clamshell case. Provenance : "Johana Caesar her book 1649" (ink inscription at top of A2r); Seth S. and Ward E. Terry (bookplate); E. Hubert Litchfield (armorial bookplate) sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 4 December 1951, lot 613; David and Lulu Borowitz (bookplate, inside case), purchased at their sale by Seven Gables Bookshop, Part I, Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, 15 November 1977, lot 156; Abel E. Berland (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE (B2r with reading "Warres" in heading). One of the most important collections of seventeenth-century verse, by a gifted amateur poet associated with both the Cavalier and Metaphysical schools. A dedicated royalist shown great favor by Charles I, Lovelace was imprisoned on at least two occasions for his convictions. (In 1642, jailed for his support of a royalist petition, he composed "To Althea, from Prison," with the well-known lines "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage...".) The "Lucasta" in the title has been identified with his mistress, Lady Lucy Sacheverell, who married another suitor when Lovelace was wrongly reported to have been killed in battle in France; but it is possible that Lucasta is merely a romantic creation of the poet's imagination. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY originally owned by the poet's sister, Johanna, spouse of Robert Caesar (see provenance). A brief genealogy has been added in a 19th-century hand on a preliminary leaf. Grolier Wither to Prior 528; Hayward 97; Pforzheimer 627 (noting only six other copies with Sig. B2r in first state); Wing L3240.
LOVELACE, Richard (1617-ca 1657). Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. To Which is Added Aramantha, A Pastorall. London: Thomas Harper for Thomas Ewster, 1649.
LOVELACE, Richard (1617-ca 1657). Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. To Which is Added Aramantha, A Pastorall. London: Thomas Harper for Thomas Ewster, 1649. 8 o (142 x 84 mm). Engraved allegorical title-page by William Faithorne after Peter Lilly (Johnson, Faithorne no. 4), engraved portrait of a lady (Lucasta) by the same, preceding "Aramantha" at p. 145), title-page in red and black, verse dedication "To the Right Honourable, my Lady Anne Lovelace" (2pp.), commendatory verses in praise of Lovelace (one by Andrew Marvell), table of contents (2pp.) at end. (Lacking blank leaves A4 and M4, minor soiling to a few pages.) Early 19th-century red-brown diced russia, covers blind-tooled with narrow lozenges, greek-key borders, edges gilt (neatly rebacked, preserving original spine); cloth clamshell case. Provenance : "Johana Caesar her book 1649" (ink inscription at top of A2r); Seth S. and Ward E. Terry (bookplate); E. Hubert Litchfield (armorial bookplate) sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 4 December 1951, lot 613; David and Lulu Borowitz (bookplate, inside case), purchased at their sale by Seven Gables Bookshop, Part I, Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, 15 November 1977, lot 156; Abel E. Berland (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE (B2r with reading "Warres" in heading). One of the most important collections of seventeenth-century verse, by a gifted amateur poet associated with both the Cavalier and Metaphysical schools. A dedicated royalist shown great favor by Charles I, Lovelace was imprisoned on at least two occasions for his convictions. (In 1642, jailed for his support of a royalist petition, he composed "To Althea, from Prison," with the well-known lines "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage...".) The "Lucasta" in the title has been identified with his mistress, Lady Lucy Sacheverell, who married another suitor when Lovelace was wrongly reported to have been killed in battle in France; but it is possible that Lucasta is merely a romantic creation of the poet's imagination. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY originally owned by the poet's sister, Johanna, spouse of Robert Caesar (see provenance). A brief genealogy has been added in a 19th-century hand on a preliminary leaf. Grolier Wither to Prior 528; Hayward 97; Pforzheimer 627 (noting only six other copies with Sig. B2r in first state); Wing L3240.
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