Patrins, To Which Is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second

An uncommon collection of essays by Louise Imogen Guiney, a smart copy of the first edition. The first edition of this uncommon work.A series of essays by Louise Imogen Guiney, including 'On the Rabid versus the Harmless Scholar', 'A Bitter Complaint of the Ungentle Reader', and 'Quiet London', as well as an essay of King Charles II.Guiney was an American poet and essayist, who moved to England in 1901.From the library of Charles Dudley Warner, with his pencil inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Warner was a novelist, and a friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-wrote 'The Gilded Age'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, with gilt letting to both boards and the spine. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the cloth. Very light rubbing to the joints. Front hinge is starting but firm. Pencil inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed.…