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London: Printed by W. Godbid, for R.S. and are to be Sold by John Williams Junior, in Cross-Key Court in Little-Britain, 1674, 1674. Palmer IV, 12. This copy is a very nice and tidy copy bound in 19th century vellum over boards. A very nice copy. Citation/references :Wing (2nd ed.), H1521, &, Wing H-1049; Palmer IV, 12. Printed: 1667 Duodecimo, Nineth edition of the first book, the second Fifth edition π⁶ [*⁶](-[*1]) ,A- I¹² K⁶; ²A-C¹², A-B¹²,C⁶ {tricky but complete] The text of the Temple includes the pattern poems, "The Altar," and "Easter Wings" Herbert's reputation rests on this remarkable collection of poems which mark perfectly the metaphysical tone of his spiritual unrest, which is resolved in final peace, "the Herbert we know through 'Aaron,' 'Discipline,' 'The Collar,' 'The Pulley,' and many other poems in which he strives to subdue the willful or kindle the apathetic self His principal themes are those 'two vast, spacious things Sinne and Love' There is nothing soft in the… Read More

London: 1674: Printed by W. Godbid, for R.S. and are to be Sold by John Williams Junior, in Cross-Key Court in Little-Britain, 1674. Printed: 1674 1597-1663 Duodecimo, 575 x 35 inches The tenth edition [p]6, [*]5, A-L12, K6; A-C12; A-B12, C6 This copy Lacks the engraved portrait of Herbert by White. But does include the poems entitled "The Church Porch" and "The Church" appear in this edition as full paged engravings. This copy is water stained in the first few signatures, with the loss of some fore edge margins that have been repaired. It is bound in a fancy mid-nineteenth century of embossed calfskin in a neo-gothic blind tooled panel.(erbacked) The endpapers are marbled, The spine is handsomely tooled in blind as well, although the spine label has flaked off ¶This work contains 140 stanzic patterns, including the most famous shaped poem in the English language Herbert's reputation rests on this remarkable collection of poems which mark perfectly the Metaphysical tone of his spiritual unrest… Read More

London: 1703: Printed by J. Barber, for Jeffery Wale, at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1703. Printed: 1703 1593-1633 Duodecimo, 61 x 375 inches The twelfth edition of the Herbert and the eighth edition of the Harvey A-K12; A-E12, F6 The fine engraved portrait of George Herbert by Stuart is bound before the title The poems entitled "The Church Porch" and "The Altar" appear in this edition as full paged engravings This copy is bound in contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt with red label, worn at corners and spine ends, and cracked at joints but holding, boards very scratched, internally quite sound and clean We may partly distinguish two poets in Herbert There is, first, the parish priest of early seventeenth-century England who revered his Church as a chaste mother neither 'painted' nor 'undrest;' who deplored the worm of schism eating away the English rose and (to the disturbance of the Cambridge licenser in 1633) saw Religion standing "on tip-toe in our land, Readie to passe to the American… Read More

Antwerp: Amberes,{Antwerp} Por Enrico y Cornelio Verdussen 1701, 1701. third Edition. This large folio is bound in full contemporary vellum with gilt tooling. Snags repaired in the blank of the title page and on the folding Engraving , without damaging the text. Scattered freckles. Good copy. Folio. 14 x 9 inches * 6, ** 4, *** 2, A-Z4, 2A-2C4 / a4, a-f4, g2. The Rubens master. Landwehr, Dutch 240; Landwehr, Low Countries 678. (cfr. PRAZ, Studies in seventeenth-century imagery I pp.523-524 & Peeters Fontainas Bibliographie des impr. espagn. des Pays-Bas mérid. 1275;. This Emblem book is made up of three Stoic works, beginning with Text from Horace in latin with 103 copper plates of engravings, That is a full page engraving of Vaenius by his daughter Gertrude van Veen engraved by Pontius. These emblems also appeared in "Emblems from Horace, but not directly, these engravings represent both allegoric and general passages from Horace, the texts are in Spanish. ¶ The Horace is followed The Table of… Read More

Straßburg or Köln or Deventer: Husner? or Quentell? or Jacobus de Breda, 1483. ISTC it00272000. CIBN; T-193; HC; 1355 bound with (HC 8397) IG; 2586; GW; M46053; ISTC locates only one US copy, Huntington. Internet Access: https://data.cerl.org/istc/it00272000 http://www.gesamtkatalogderwiegendrucke.de/docs/M46053.htm. Bound in modern vellum over boards. Veer clean copy.. Quarto 20×14 cm. Signatures: AA-BB⁶ (BB6 blank) & A8 The tract by Heinrich von Langenstein is not a separate printing although Hain catalogues it as such?

Oxford: Printed by I.L. Printer to the Vniversity, for Thomas Huggins, 1633, 1633. Third Edition. 1633, Quarto, 675 x 48 inches Third edition A-Z4, Aa-Tt4 The title page of this copy is browned around the edge and chipped The following few leaves are a little brittle around the edge as well Internally the book is in good contemporary condition Binding rubbed armorial bookplate on first pastedown, This copy is bound later calf. ¶ Bacon [] set himself down to work on his philosophy, that scheme for men's education which had been in his mind so long Planning now in earnest and committing his plans to paper, Bacon called this first book the Advancement of Learning [] Bacon wrote out a preliminary brief statement, [] 'The Interpretation of Nature, or the Kingdom of Man' Nature, to Bacon, was man's true kingdom, neglected for centuries by churchmen who looked for a kingdom in heaven, or by scholiasts who despised the world about them and the evidence of their senses Yet in order to attain this new kingdom… Read More