ABSTRACT
Date and publication. Astraea Redux. A Poem On the Happy Restoration & Return Of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second was published by Herringman in 1660 (advertised in Mercurius Publicus 21–8 June); George Thomason’s copy in the BL is dated 19 June. There are two states of 1660, the second incorporating press corrections, including one substantive change which is probably authorial (see l. 208n), and another which could have been made by the printing house (see l. 195n). The poem was reprinted in the 1688 edition of AM. The present edition follows 1660 with the two press corrections included.
