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DRUMMOND, WILLIAM. The most Elegant, and Elabourate Poems...London: Printed for William Rands, 1659. Small 8vo, dark red morocco gilt, g.e., by Riviere for H. Buxton Forman (so signed on front turn-in), skilfull repairs to blank area of title-page, margins cut close affecting an occasional catchword or headline, small neat marginal repairs to some leaves. FIRST EDITION, second issue (with the 1659 title-page), frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Gaywood, with separate title-pages to the various works, without the Dedication leaf to Sir John Scot found in some copies. Wither to Prior 300; Wing D2200. The H. Buxton Forman-R.B. Adam-Jerome Kern-Frederick Spiegelberg copy, bookplates.