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Title: The second advice to a painter for drawing the history of our navall business: in imitation of Mr. Waller / being the last worke of Sr. John Denham; The third advice to a painter; New instructions, or, The fourth advice to a painter; Additionall instructions, or, The fifth advice to the painter; Clarendon house warming.
Creator: Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.
Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669, attributed name.
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. Second advice to a painter for drawing the history of our navall business.
Contributor: Houghton, Arthur Amory, 1906-1990, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1667]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. Items numbered from 40 to 44 in same hand as text. Published as: Directions to a painter for describing our naval business in imitation of Mr. Waller, being the last works of Sir John Denham, whereunto is annexed Clarindon's housewarming. London : s.n., 1667.
Scope/Content: A manuscript copy of five political satires attributed to Andrew Marvell, dating from approximately 1667. These five poems were published in 1667 under the title Directions to a painter and this copy was either made from this early octavo edition, or from a very closely related manuscript. The poems were attributed to Sir John Denham, the mad Royalist poet, to conceal the identity of the true author (or, possibly, authors).
Condition: Bound in modern half calf with marbled boards; modern brown cloth folding case with brown morocco backed slipcase.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Poems
Extent: [48] p., bound ;20 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1dc7w
MS.1980.002
Language: English
eng
Subject: Political satire, English--17th century.
Verse satire, English--17th century.
English poetry--17th century.
Place: England
Provenance: Part of the Houghton collection sold by Christie's in June 1980.
Location: CLUW

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