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Metaphysical Poets; Derbyshire, The Peak District. Cotton (Charles, of Beresford Hall; fishing friend of and contributor to Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler), The Wonders of the Peake (sic), fourth edition, London: Printed for Charles Brome at the Gun in St Paul's Church-Yard, 1699, title-page with printer's rebus mark, [iv], 86pp, slight loss to THE of title-page, the complete text somewhat browned and dusty in places, original speckled calf boards, rebacked to style, 8vo
Cotton's celebrated topographical poem satirises and cribs from Thomas Hobbes' De Mirabilibus Pecci, describing in heroic couplets the Seven Wonders of the Peak, the last of which is Chatsworth, the seat of the Cavendish family, the then earls and now dukes of Devonshire.
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