Guillaume de Salluste, Seigneur . Bartas his deuine weekes & workes translated: & dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Iosuah Syluester

by DU BARTAS

£2,250 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste, Seigneur . Bartas his deuine weekes workes translated: dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Iosuah Syluester London: Humphray Lownes. [(Colophon:) 1608.] 4to. Contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered in modern calf; pp. [xxxii], 544, 193, [23], 96, [8]; copper-engraved architectural title-page by William Hole incorporating Old Testament scenes, a world map, the constellations, and the Tetragrammaton; ‘The Historie of Judith’ with separate dated title-page to f. 3P1r, woodcut portrait of Bartas to f. B1v, 11 pp. with printed central column containing the name of a Muse, printed sectional titles with astronomical diagrams, dedicatory verse to Philip Sidney in the form of a pyramid with his armorial hedgehog at head, woodcut head- and tailpieces, large woodcut printer’s device to recto of last leaf; small stain to title-page obscuring surname of printer, slight marginal fraying and light soiling to title; boards a little rubbed and worn, headcap chipped; short closed marginal tears to ff. O1 P1 sympathetically repaired, occasional light marginal dampstaining, small wormtrack at inner margin of last few quires, occasionally touching one or two letters; a very good copy; modern bookplate of the Fox Pointe library of Howard and Linda Knohl to front pastedown, contemporary ink ownership inscription to head of title ‘Mary Woodward her Booke’ and to rear free endpaper ‘William Gibbons his booke 1635’ with ‘I deny that Mary Gibbons her B

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