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Nürmberg: Gabriel Hein, 1553. Quarto 7 X 5 inches A-K4 This is a disbound pamphlet. Weigand of Redwitz became a canon in Bamberg in 1490. He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. In 1520, he was the senior pastor of Kronach. Among his congregation was the reformer Johannes Grau, who had to flee to Wittenberg after he married the daughter of a citizen of Kronach. During his time as bishop, Weigand acted against Luther's followers and removed Lutheran clergy from office. However, under the restraining influence of his veteran advisor John of Schwarzenberg, he was less redical than some of the people who had elected him would have liked. At the time Weigand was appointed bishop, Adrian VI was Pope and Charles V was Emperor. During his reign, the Peasants' War raged in the area. Over 70 manors and several monasteries were destroyed. Weigand attempted to resolve the conflict diplomatically. When military intervention appeared unavoidable, he turned to the Swabian League. The cathedral chapter also favoured… 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: 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: Henry Herringman, 1673. First Edition. Folio: 12 3/4 X 7 1/2 . Signatures: π1 2π2 A-3D4 3E2; Aa-Ppp4, Aaaa-Oooo4; ¶ An unusually fine, fresh, wide-margined copy, with a fine impression of the portrait. Bound in full contemporary calf with nicely gilt spine. Wing D320. The First Collected Edition, with prefatory material by Hobbes, 'The answer of Mr. Hobbes to Sr. William D'Avenant's preface before Gondibert', and poems by Waller and Cowley. Several of the plays originally published in blank verse are here printed for the first time, converted into prose. The volume also includes first printings of 'The Playhouse to be Let', 'Law Against Lovers', 'News from Plymouth', 'The Fair Favourite', 'The Distresses', and 'The Siege'. The posthumous collection was published under the watchful eye of "Lady Mary" D'Avenant. The poems reflect the attitudes of the Cavalier poets and the received tradition of earlier poets, particularly Shakespeare, Jonson, and Donne. She no doubt also insisted on the fine… 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