ABSTRACT
Date and publication. Astraea Redux. A Poem On the Happy Restoration & Return O f His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second was published by Herringman in 1660 (advertised in Mercurius Publicus 2 1-8 June); George Thomason’s copy in the BL is dated 19 June. There are two states o f 1660, the second incorporating press corrections, including one substantive change which is probably auth orial (see 1. 208n), and another which could have been made by the printing house (see 1. 195*1). The poem was reprinted in the 1688 edition o f AM . The present edition follows 1660 with the two press corrections included.
