Sales catalogue 574: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/118
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 574: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CORYAT S CRUDITIES 107 CORYATE (Thomas). Three Crude Veines are presented in this Booke following (besides the foresaid Crudities) no lesse flowing in the body of the Booke, then the Crudities themselves, two of Rhetoricke and one of Poesie. . . Then in the Posterne of them looke, and thou shalt find the Posthume Poems of the Authors Father, comming as neere Kinsemen to the worke, being next of blood to the Booke, and yonger brothers to the Author himselfe. With the rare engraved plates, including those of the Author and the Venetian Courtesan. First Epition. Thick small 4to. Bound by Bedford tn full morocco gilt, g.e. London, Printed by W. S., Anno Domini, 1611. | £22 Ios ‘‘ Despairing of ever getting his travels published, Coryate applied to | every person of eminence whom he knew, and to many whom he could scarcely have known at all, to write commendatory verses upon himself, his book, and his travels, and by his unwearied pertinacity and unblushing importunity, contrived to get together the most extraordinary collection of testimonials which have ever been gathered in a single sheaf. More than sixty of tthe most brilliant and illustrious litterate of the time were among the contributors to his strange farrago, the wits vying with one another in their attempts to produce mock heroic verses, turning Coryate to solemn ridicule. Among tthe number are found the names of Ben. Jonson, Sir J. Harrington, Dudley Digges, R. Cotton, John Donne, H. Holland, Inigo Jones, John Gifford, Richard Corbet, G. Chapman, Michael Drayton, etc. Ben. Jonson undertook to edit these amusing panegyrics, which actually fill 108 pp. of the first edition of Coryate’s Crudities.’? (D.N.B.). An absolutely complete copy is rarely seen, only three or four copies being known to exist; our copy lacks the engraved title and the Dedicatisn to Henry, Prince of Wales, also the errata leaf. Otherwise a fine sound Copy.