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Title: Maronides or Virgil Travestie: Being a new Paraphrase Upon the Fifth Book of Virgil's Aeneids in Burlesque Verse. [bound with] ...the Sixth Book... Author: Phillips, John Place: London Publisher: Nathanael Brooks Date: 1672 & 1673 Description: 2 volumes in 1. [iv], 151 (misnumbered 134); [vi], 151 (misnumbered as 121) pp. (8vo) 6½x4¼, period full calf, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. The first work is dedicated to George Wharton, Treasurer and Paymaster of his Majesty's Office of the Ordnance in the Tower; the second book is dedicated to Valentine Oldis. Both are riddled with contemporary literary and political allusions. Lot Amendments Condition: Joints and edges rubbed, old cloth repair to hinges, now cracking; early ink underlinings throughout; else very good. Item number: 180696