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Cologne: Quentell, 1492. This copy has rubrication on the first few pages with a very nice Lombard initial at the beginning of the text. Quarto. 19 X 14 cm Signatures: a-g⁶ [Lacks leaves g 3.4; GW notes: "In einem Teil der Aufl. fehlt das Doppelbl. g3.4, dessen Ausfall keine merkliche Störung des Textes bedeutet."] {"In part of the edition the double sheet g3.4 is missing, the failure of which does not mean any noticeable disturbance of the text.}. Accipies Woodcut" used by Quentell; depicting St Gregory instructs two scholars, this was used from 1491 to 1495, This is designated as 'A i' or the first woodblock of this he used. cf. Proctor. Bibliographical Essays, pages 1-12.. The large woodcut on the title page has the famous inscription "Accipies tanti doctoris dogmata sancta"- ( ("You will receive the sacred tenets of a great doctor")) This is the first of several woodcuts known as the "Accipies Woodcut" used by Quentell; depicting St Gregory instructs two scholars, this was used from 1491 to… Read More

Venice: Presso la compagnia de gli Vniti, 1585. A later edition of the first rosary Book" in Italian.. This book has a wonderful contemporary binding, recently expertly rebacked. It is of red Morocco with gilt center images and borders gilt, with angels. Over 150 woodcuts (including repeats) comprising almost full-page cuts (1 on t.p.) within borders. All had previously appeared in earlier editions. Ornamental and pictorial border pieces on almost every leaf. ( The wood cut on leaf 173v is upside. Certainly, these books were very popular, that said, very few copies have survived. This edition is represented on OCLC by only two copies worldwide. 1 US copy Saint Benedict/Saint John's University. (SJU Alcuin Arca Artium Rare BookBX2163 .C37 1585). [The authorship of the work and the woodcuts are attributable to the Dominican Friar Alberto da Castello, identified as author or editor at the authorizations of the Venecian Inquisition, given 5 April 1521. (Francesco Pisano) Sander 6572-6573. See: Essling… Read More

Anvers: De l'imprimerie de C. Plantini, (PLANTIN), 1567. Third edition expanded to 217 Emblems. Bound coeval limp laced case parchment. a clean copy in original condition. 217 woodcuts Each woodcut is accompanied by a motto, followed by an explanation. Landwehr Romantic Nº 569; VOET, The Plantin Press, N° 1953." Réimpression de l'édition donnée par Plantin en 1561, & illustrée des mêmes 216 bois gravés. Adams/Rawles/Saunders French emblem books F-461 Mortimer, Harvard cat. 410. Praz, M. Studies in 17th-century imagery,; p. 444-445; Volkmann; page 53 ; Kraus cat Nº66 n.479;. Duodecimo in 8's, 12.5 x 8 cm. Third edition A-V8 This edition has 217 woodcuts Each woodcut is accompanied by a motto, followed by an explanation. Bound coeval limp laced case parchment. a clean copy in original condition. The Devises Heroïques published in French in Lyons in 1551 by Jean de Tournes. Under the title Dévises héroïques. Les dévises ov emblèmes héroïques et morales, by Simeoni, originally published… Read More

London: 1688: Printed for Nathaniel Brook, at the Angel in Gresham Colledge, 1688. Fourth Edition. Printed: 1688 1613-1658 Octavo, 56 x 36 inches Fourth edition Ad I: A2-8, B-M8, N4 Ad II: A-P8, (A1 blank and present) This copy has the Robert White 'Vera et viva Effigies' of Cleveland , and he appears quite amused .

London: by R. Holt for Obadiah Blagrave, 1687. First Edition. Printed: 1687 1613-1658 Octavo, 6 1/2 x 4 inches First edition A8, a4, B-Z8, Aa-Ll8 This edition has the "vera Effigies" engraving of Cleaveland This copy is in excellent condition internally It is bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked. ¶ As a poet Cleveland enjoyed great fame in his lifetime but nowadays his work is hardly known Opinions differ as to the quality of his poetry, some believing it due for revival and others finding it too much of its own time to bear close scrutiny and representation in ours His case bears some resemblance to that of his contemporary Abraham Cowley ¶Cleveland was the son of a Yorkshire clergyman who moved to the living of Hinckley, Leicestershire, in 1621 He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and was made a fellow of St John's in 1634 He was a contemporary of Milton at Christ's College, and contributed a poem to the volume of elegies on the death of Edward King He opposed the election of… Read More

London: by R. Holt for Obadiah Blagrave, 1687, 1687. Octavo, 61/2 x 4 inches First edition A8, a4, B-Z8, Aa-Ll8 This edition has the "Vera Effigies" engraving of Cleveland This copy is in good condition internally, bound in contemporary calf rebacked. ¶ As a poet Cleveland enjoyed great fame in his lifetime but nowadays his work is hardly known Opinions differ as to the quality of his poetry, some believing it due for revival and others finding it too much of its own time to bear close scrutiny and representation in ours His case bears some resemblance to that of his contemporary Abraham Cowley Cleveland was the son of a Yorkshire clergyman whomoved to the living of Hinckley, Leicestershire, in 1621 He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and was made a fellow of St John's in 1634 He was a contemporary of Milton at Christ's College, and contributed a poem to the volume of elegies on the death of Edward King He opposed the election of Cromwell as MP for Cambridge in 1640 and was, like Cowley… Read More

London: Printed for Nathaniel Brook, at the Angel in Corn-hill, 1660. 1613-1658 Octavo, 56 x 36 inches Second edition A-M8, N4 This edition has the 'Vara Effigies' portrait ¶This volume begins a new series of Cleveland, which continued, for a few years, to be published concurrently with the regular editions of his works, and was finally incorporated in the edition of 1687 The editor of the collection, E Williamson, in his epistle 'to the discerning reader' claims to have been a friend of the poet, from whom he received the manuscripts which he here publishes In his words Cleveland stated to him that 'most of his former printed Poems were truly his own, except such as have been lately added, to make up the volume" Thiks can hardly refer to the borrowings from Fletcher, which appeared the same year as the present publication, since Cleveland died the previous year The editor admits, both on the title and in his epistle, that he has included some pieces by authors other than Cleveland The collection… Read More

Paris: Jacobeo, sub signo Pellicani ab Engleberto Marnefio, 1522. Second edition. Signatures: a-g8, h6(h5-6 both blank, half of h5 missing and lacking h6) LXII f. Bound in original vellum limp binding with hand lettering on spine "Cleree sermones/aVerdu DNI/1522": name on first page "Thomas Stevenson/Edinburgh/183. very good copy of a rare sermon. John Clérée dominican friar, preacher of the Late Middle Ages, is a little and unjustly forgotten nowadays. He was however very well known in the time of the kings Charles VIII and Louis XII, whose he has been the confessor. This study is based on the Quadragesimale said of Valenciennes. Clérée, using always of the rules of the scolastic Ars Praedicamdi, is nevertheless able to innovate by introducing in his sermons some dramatic dialogues. He is an accurate witness of the difficulties and problems of the french society about 1500 : the increasing inegalities between rich and poor ; the heaviness of the royal fiscality and of all kinds of taxes ; the… Read More

Cologne: [In officina honesti civis Petri Quentell], 1525. Quarto 7 ½ x 5 ¾ inches [A]4, B-Q4; P2] unsigned. Disbound. BM STC German,; p. 248; Adams,; C2265; Panzer,; VI, 391, 408; Pegg,; 674; Kuczynski,; 464; Hohenemser,; 3233; Spahn, Cochlaeus,; 30. After Emser's death Cochlæus took his place as secretary to Duke George of Saxony, whom he defended against an attack of Luther based on the false charge of an alliance between the Catholic princes at Breslau Conjointly with Duke George he laboured strenuously in 1530, to refute the Augsburg Confession, and later directed against Melanchthon, its author, his bitter "Philippicae". Because of a pamphlet against Henry VIII of England he was transferred in 1535 to a canonry in Meissen.. With indomitable ardour he published pamphlet after pamphlet against Luther and Melanchthon, against Zwingli, Butzer, Bullinger, Cordatus, Ossiander, etc. Almost all of these publications, however, were written in haste and bad temper, without the necessary revision and… Read More

Padua: Petrumpaulum Tozzium : ex typographeio Laurentij Pasquati, 1616. First illustrated edition. Quarto 22 x 16 cm :signatures [manicule]⁴ a-d⁴ c² A-4P⁴ 4Q² [$2; b2 signed "a2", 4N signed "Nnn"]. This copy is bound in modern Parchment, a very nice copy great impressions. Title page in red and black, (5), (5) Catalogus, (28) Index, 614, (1), 60pp. 2 full page engraved plates, large folding astrological plate, numerous further engravings.

Pavia: Girolamo Bartoli, 1574. Folio 12.3/4 " x 9": *6, A-Qq4, Rr8, including engraved title within an architectural border, full-page engraved device on L4 recto (including map depicting America), engraved device of the Accademia degli Affidati on M2 verso, and 114 engraved devices of the members of the Accademia. Bound in coeval limp vellum with an early handwritten title on the spine. Bartoli's hydra device on the colophon {There are two printings of leaf 155, as leaf Qq4 and Rrl; Qq4 has text, colophon, & errata that are repeated in signature Rr. This copy has both Qq4 and Rr1. This copy has cancel leaves 68-69, 95, 98, 100, 123, 139. }. Biographical Dictionary on line, file a signed by Claudio Mutini. 1574 Landwehr J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books: 233 ; Praz p. 66; Mortimer Harvard Italian, 136. ; Edit 16 online,; CNCE 13187/With the ownership signature of George Benson Weston/ Cambridge 6 May 1921, from Rome.. Frontispiece engraved within architectural border Arms of… Read More

London: 1689: Printed for Tho. Basset, at the George in Fleet-street; Will. Hinsman and Tho. Fox, in Westminster-Hall, 1689. First edition. Printed: 1689 1630-1687 Octavo, 72 x 45 inches First edition A4, B-Z8, Aa-Zz8 Bound in full contemporary calf ruled in blind a good unsophisticated copy Another oddly isolated and under-valued poet is Charles Cotton, whose posthumous volume of Poems on Several Occasions (1689) appears to have aroused little contemporary interest, and who was probably little known by the time of Addison and Pope, except for his burlesque poems and The Wonders of the Peak Yet there is more and better poetry in the 1689 volume than is to be found in any other minor poet of the Restoration: if this was not recognized at the time it must have been because Cotton's natural vein was out of fashion There was still a public for the natural that was at the same time low; but by 1689 the polite reader expected a good deal more sophistication and artificiality than Cotton usually gave him He… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by James Watson, and Sold at his shop opposite to the Lucken-Booths, 1711, 1711. ESTC Citation No. R12941; Wing (2nd ed., 1994), C5426. Octavo, A-G8, H4 This copy is bound in modern quarter calf. Of Colvil's personal history nothing is known His first appearance as a writer is supposed to have been in 1673 A work printed at Edinburgh in that year is extant, entitled "An Historical Dispute of the Papacy and Popish Religion," which bears to be written by "Sam Colvil," but whether this was the same individual who wrote the "Whigs' Supplication" is not certain ¶ The latter work was published at London, in duodecimo, in the year 1681 It was much read, and has even continued to be read, down to a late period Samuel Colvile, was a poet of considerable reputation He is described as a gentleman ; * an expression which is perhaps intended to signify that he belonged to no profession ; and his name occurs in a " bond of provision," executed by his father on the 5th of May 1643 His… Read More