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1660405933Oxford: A & L. Lichfield Acad. typogr 1660. Spine and boards edges dried and cracking one spine label partly perished. 4to 185 x 140 mm. Collation A4 a4 B4 b2 C-L4 M2 2A-2F4. 152 pages. Large woodcut vignette of the University printers on title-page verso with woodcut of the royal arms and initials "C.R." Mottled calf by Riviere all edges gilt. Provenance: William B. Crocker armorial bookplate. FIRST EDITION of this collection of royalist congratulatory verse compiled by Oxonians upon the accession of Charles II in Latin Arabic Hebrew Greek French and English. The collection includes the first published appearance of John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester then a 13-year old undergraduate and the second appearance in print by John Locke. ESTC R203103; Grolier/Wither to Prior 96; Madan III:2466; Wing O863. <br/><br/> A & L. Lichfield, Acad. typogr hardcover books