State Library Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

RAREEMM 151/13

A printed exemplum, inscribed on the title-page Edm Waller. 001: 5s: 1675. 1675.

Christie's, 30 September 1981 (Chatsworth sale), lot 447. This corresponds to lot 343 in the Waller sale of 1832. Owned by John McLaren Emmerson (1938-2014) and bequeathed by him.

*WaE 865: Edmund Waller, Aristotle. La Rhetorique d'Aristote, traduction nouvelle [par F. Cassandre] (Paris, 1675)

RAREEMM 333/7

Two poems inscribed, in a neat hand, in a printed exemplum of the Fifth edition of Waller's Poems (London, 1686), in contemporary red morocco gilt. c.1690.

Bookplates of Sir Charles Bagot [?] (1781-1843), of Blithfield House, Rugely, Staffordshire, Governor-General of British North America, and of William Waldorf, Viscount Astor of Hever Castle. Probably the volume in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 643 (1937), item 1571. Quaritch's sale catalogue English Literature in Manuscript (November 1996), item 17. Owned by John McLaren Emmerson (1938-2014) and bequeathed by him.

On front endpapers
WaE 541.5: Edmund Waller, To His Majesty, upon his Motto, Beati Pacifici, occasioned by the taking of Buda, 1686 ('Buda and Rhodes proud Solyman had torn')

Copy, on three pages.

First published as a separate leaf inserted in some exempla of Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 106-7.

On rear endpapers
WaE 286.5: Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book ('When we for age could neither read nor write')

Copy, on two pages.

First published in Poems, Fifth edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.