[DRYDEN, John]

THE MEDALL; A Satyre Against Sedition by the author of Absalom and Achitophel

London: Jacob Tonson, 1682. First Edition, second issue. Small 4to, pp. [12], 20. Bound in modern thin marbled boards. Leaves toned but a very good tight clean copy. Wing D2311; CBEL II, 264; Macdonald 13aii; ESTC R17608. Item #46505

Early in 1682, Dryden published The Medall, a work full of unsparing invective against the Whigs, prefaced by a vigorous and plainspoken prose “Epistle to the Whigs.” The opposition party (the nascent Whigs) had a medal struck in Poland to commemorate the release of one of their leaders, the Earl of Shaftesbury, who had been held in the Tower on charges of treason.

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