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[Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschla, 1480. First Edition. First edition. - First blank almost loose, with backed tear and torn of corner as well as "Rosarium sup(er) bibliam" in old handwriting, flyleaf with purchase note dated 1908, small water stain on the bottom corner in the first half of the work, slightly soiled and tanned. - Wide margined copy from the Wican Free Public Library (blind stamp and bookplate). - 19th centuy half vellum (slightly scrachted and scuffed). Rubricated and initials supplied in red and blue. ¶ This is one of the earliest printed books on the ars memorativa or mnemotechnics the rare first edition of the Roseum memoriale composed by the German Benedictine monk Petrus of Rosenhaym (Upper Bavaria), written between 1423 and 1426 for Cardinal Giulio Branda di Castiglione. Petrus of Rosenhaym composed numerous treatises, sermons, and verses: the Roseum memoriale is surely his most… Read More

Edinburgh: 1711: printed by James Watson, in Craig's-Closs, 1711. Printed: 1711 Folio, First collected edition [4],xlv,[3],243,[1];iv,60p,plates : ports ; 20 William Drummond is the last significant figure in Scottish poetry before the Eighteenth Century The gap between him and Alan Ramsay indicates a crisis in Scottish literary culture brought on by the departure of the Scottish court to London with the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of Great Britain James had been a patron of poets, dabbled in poetry himself and delivered himself of Rewellis and Cautelis [Do's and Don'ts] for its composition Not only had the court been a centre of literary activity where men of letters such as Drummond's uncle, William Fowler, and his friend William Alexander of Menstrie, later Earl of Stirling, gained employment, it had also given authority to Scots as a literary language These conditions were now abolished Poets who had published their work in Scots, followed James in revising it and publishing… Read More