Apollo's Marsdrager - 1728-1731

Apollo's Marsdrager

Interesting edition of Apollo’s Marsdrager in 3 parts. Part 1: without year, Part 2: 1731 and Part 3: 1728
Illustrated with hand-colored frontispieces and images; the black-and-white images with surrounding pages are not bound in. See below.

Title page:
Apollo’s Marsdrager, veylende Alderhande Shrewd and Entertaining Quickness, Wit, Satire and Mixed Verses: and there under the Laws of the Card Game, the Praise of the Rhine Wine, the Concurrence on Tobacco, etc. With neat Prints adorned.
The seventy-ninth edition, augmented with 37 Poems.

On Parnassus, By Valerius Maximus and Junius Juvenalis In Company

Contents:
• Blank (1 page) + title page (1 page, see above text) + To One’s Listening Congregation (4 pages)
• 37 Quick, Satirical and Entertaining Short, Snappy Poems (numbered 1 to 37, 14 unnumbered pages)
• Collection of Witty and Entertaining Short, Satirical and Mixed Poems (numbered 1 to 584, pp. 1 to 144)
In this series 18 pages are missing, causing the black-and-white medallions on the following pages: 17, 33, 49, 73, 97, 113, 129, 145 to be absent.
• Mixed poems. Student Talk on the Praise of Tobacco, and the Practice of Pickpockets between Johannes Likkebroer and Kornelius Slempius (pp. 147 to 164) is also the End of the First Part (see photo).
• Hand-colored frontispiece with the inscription: ‘Apollo’s Marschdrager, second part’ + title page: Apollo’s Marsdrager veiling Allerhande Sharp-witted and Entertaining Quickness, Wit, Satire and Mixed Poems and there under The Chair-Rage of the Suns, on the Great Lenten-Evening. With neat Prints adornment. Second part, The 40th Edition – On Parnaes, By Valerius Martialis and D. Junius Juvenalis, In Company, 1731 + To One’s Pleasant and Pleasant Congregation (6 pages)
• Collection of Witty and Entertaining Short, Satirical and Mixed Poems (pp. 1 to 192, numbered 1 to 198)
In this series 20 pages are missing, causing the black-and-white medallions on the following pages: 9, 33, 73, 129 to be absent.
In this series 4 hand-colored illustrations on pp: 49, 89, 105, 153
• Mixed poems (pp. 155 to 192), where pages 181/188 and 191/2 are missing.
• Hand-colored frontispiece with the inscription: ‘Apollo’s Marschdrager, third part’ + title page: Apollo’s Marsdrager veiling Allerhande Sharp-witted and Entertaining Quickness, Wit, Satire and Mixed Poems. With neat Prints adornment. The Third Part By G. Tysens in Amsterdam, Henderik Bosch, Bookseller, about the Girl’s Education, 1728 + Address to Ignorance (6 pages) + To the Reader (4 pages)
• Quick, Satirical and Wit Poems (pp. 1 to 141, numbered 1 to 391) – 2 pages missing, causing the medallion on page 77 to be missing – hand-colored illustrations on pages 45, 53, 63, 97, 117, 133
• Mixed poems (pp. 142 to 172)

Condition description:
Leather binding – 15.5 x 11 – 5 ribs – gold title and harp symbols on the spine – 604 pages – signs of wear.
The edition is in very good condition, apart from the above-mentioned deficiencies due to the missing 40 pages with 23 black-and-white illustrations, partly compensated by 12 lovely hand-colored illustrations including 2 frontispieces.