Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The matchless Orinda. To which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace Tragedies. With several other Translations out of French.

London Printed by T. N. for H. Herringman at the Sign of the Blew Anchoar in the Lower Walk of the New Rxchange. 1678. . Folio, 27 x 171 mms., pp. [xxvi], 198, [6], 124, with imprimatur on leaf c4v: Imprimatur. Aug. 20. 1667. Roger L'Estrange, divisional title page on leaf Z1r: Translations. By K. Philips, contemporary calf, dark red morocco label; lacks portrait, water-stained throughout,edges browned small hole in lower margin of A1 very slightly affecting text; with an ownership inscription on top margin of title-page: "Ann Pierrepont Her Booke Aug: 1699." With the ownership ticket of Dr. Richard Luckett (1945- 2000), of Magdalen College, Oxford on the front paste-down end-paper and some of his notes and cut-out prices from old catalogues loosely inserted at end, and one leaf of handwritten notes, probably in his hand. Philips (1631 - 1664; née Fowler) married at the age of 16 James Philips, her stepbrother (the son of her mother's second husband). Her poems circulated in manuscript longer before the first edition was published in the year of her death; she objected to the publication, and copies were withdrawn from sale. This posthumous edition, which was shepherded through the press by Sir Charles Cotterel, contains another 47 poems. Her work was virtually unknown, unresearched, and unappreciated until the last 30 years of the 20th century. Wing P 2033.