The Mock Mourners. A Satyr, By way of elegy on King William. The Second Edition Corrected. By the Author of The True-born Englishman.

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Daniel Defoe,

The Mock Mourners. A Satyr, By way of elegy on King William. The Second Edition Corrected. By the Author of The True-born Englishman.

London, Printed 1702.

Defoe frequently looked back on William’s reign as a golden era and wrote this important elegy on the King

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Defoe frequently looked back on William’s reign as a golden era and wrote this important elegy on the King

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Defoe frequently looked back on William’s reign as a golden era and wrote this important elegy on the King

The volume(s) measure about 210 cm. by 158 cm. by .25 cm.

Each leaf measures about 205 mm. by 155 mm.

The Mock Mourners. A Satyr, By way of elegy on King William. The Second Edition Corrected. By the Author of The True-born Englishman. London, Printed 1702.

Paginates: [4], 32 p. Collates: [A]2 B-E4

Complete. Second Edition. Press figures: daggers on pp.iii, 22 and paragraph mark on p.31.

Apparently, a reimpression of the first London edition with textual revisions. Foxon, D133.

According to Foxon, there were two other London (Dublin) Second Editions (piracies?) with compressed text, printed in Dublin. D134 & D135. There would be 10 more editions.

Bound in modern paper-covered boards, a few spots. Red Morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front free endpaper recto, armorial bookplate of Sir Manson Beeton to front pastedown. With the Chritie’s sale tag from lot 508 on 12/17/00 laid in.  Each leaf measures 205 x 155 mm.

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