Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the Late Times. By the Most Eminent Wits, from Anno 1639 to 1661

Second expanded edition of Ratts Rhimed to Death. Engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page. [vi], 376, 72, 83-200 pp., lacking half-title and final blank. Collection of anti-Parliamentary songs and poems (the title a reference to the Rump Parliaments of the English Civil War), first published in the slim volume Ratts Rhimed to Death (1660), then under the present title that same year and again here, much expanded with the addition of some 200 poems, including 20 by John Cleveland. ESTC R24238; Wing B4851; Case128(c). Provenance: Edward Solly (bookplate); Harry Buxton Forman (bookplate and bibliographical note in pencil on flyleaf) Full nineteenth-century brown morocco extra, a.e.g., by Riviere. Frontispiece mounted, a few paper repairs, stains and toning, last leaf creased and worn Engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page. [vi], 376, 72, 83-200 pp., lacking half-title and final blank Second expanded edition of Ratts Rhimed to Death.