Satire Against Mankind & Other Poems.|A Wilmot, John Fine Press Books

8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 30, (2) pages. First edition and printed letterpress in an edition of 500 copies by Victor and Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press. (Holbrook, Introduction, no.22). Dust jacket split along the spine, minor chipping to edges, else a near fine copy. The less common hardcover issue of this volume in The Poets of the Year series. Finely printed in Emerson type in red and black on Ragston Paper. A collection of poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680). A selection of Rochester's work by editor Harry Levin. The introduction gives the main facts about the poet, who died at thirty-three years old. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket