Varias poesias, sagradas, y profanas, que dexò escritas (aunque no juntas, ni retocadas) … recogidas, y dadas a luz por Don Juan de Goyeneche ….

Madrid, En la Imprenta de Antonio Roman, 1692.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, contemporary yellow-stained vellum over thin pasteboard, tawed leather braided fasteners and remains of ties, spine lettered in ink (rubbed, some soiling). Title within typographic border, woodcut initials and tailpieces. Some light staining to first and last few leaves, scattered slight browning. Small piece torn from lower margin of Aa3, without loss. Overall in fine, crisp condition. Contemporary signature of D. Luis A[ntonio?] Mosquera y Sotomayor on title-page. From the library of the celebrated book collector Richard Heber, with the Bibliotheca Heberiana stamp on recto of front free endleaf. (22 ll.), 328 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of the author's poetry: sonnets, elegies, satires, epigrams, romances, letrillas, etc. On pp. 156-254 are 18 short dramatic works, some of which list the actors who played the roles; ten of these are loas, meant to be performed together with the author's full-length dramas. Solís y Rivadeneyra (1610-1686), a native of Alcalá de Henares, is best known for his Historia de la conquista de México, Madrid, 1684 ("a noble work of literary historiography … a model of Castilian prose, and the story is constantly gripping," Ward pp. 550-1). He also composed poetry influenced by Góngora and was "a lively, witty dramatist equipped with a vein of self-mockery" (Ward p. 551), sometimes collaborating with friends such as Coello, Calderón, Francisco de Monteser and Diego de Silva.*** Palau 318550. HSA p. 523. Ticknor Catalogue p. 336. Salvá 1421. Heredia 2047; 5643. Ward, Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature pp. 550-1. CCPBE locates 33 copies. Rebiun locates only a single copy, at Universidade de Oviedo, with only 40 preliminary pp. Jisc locates four copies: two at Oxford University, one each at Cambridge University and British Library.