WORDSWORTH, William (possible previous owner). - Sir John SUCKLING. [Fragmenta aurea: a collection of all the incomparable pieces [sic], written by Sir John Suckling. And published by a friend to perpetuate his memory.] London: printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1658. 8vo (170 x 105mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece (cut down and mounted), numerous section titles, extensive manuscript notes in at least three different hands, some signed 'W. Wordsworth' or initialled 'W.W.' . (Lacking the first 4pp., X8, D8 and all after the final G7, some other leaves torn with loss and repaired). Old sheep (rebacked). Provenance: old attribution to William Wordsworth (various notes); George Chalmers (various notes). Note: 'These notes have been principally derived from a copy of Suckling's works, edit. 1658, purporting to have been formerly in the possession of Wordsworth. All the notes written by the poet himself are initialled W.W., or signed in full, evidently to distinguish them from notes in two other hands, those of George Chalmers and John Lawson; but the authenticity of this MS. matter has (it is right to say) been called in question. The handwriting is certainly very like Wordsworth's, which varied a good deal from time to time; but it was thought that, at any rate, these remarks, whether by Wordsworth or not, could not be without a certain value.' [W.C. Hazlett (editor)] The Poems, Plays and other Remains of Sir John Suckling a New Edition with a Copious Account of the Author Notes and an Appendix of Illustrative Pieces. London: 1874, vol. I, p.lxxii.