[Z] Philips (Katherine) Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs Katherine Philips

Philips (Katherine) 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: T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, 1678, third edition, small folio, contemporary calf, engraved portrait frontispiece cut down and mounted, divisional titles for Pompey and Horace

[Wing, P2034] Katherine Philips was one the most celebrated poets of the 17th century and a contemporary of Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish and other women writers and poets who flourished after the English Civil War. Charles Cotterell (whom she gave the coterie name ‘Poliarchus’) wrote of her poems that “there are none that may not pass with favour, when it is remembered that they fell hastily from the pen but of a Woman”.