Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke . Certaine learned and elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke written in his Youth, and familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney.

by GREVILLE

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‘Let no man aske my name, | nor what else I should be; | For Griev-ill, pain, forlorne | estate doe best decipher me’ ( Caelica ) GREVILLE, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke . Certaine learned and elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke written in his Youth, and familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney. London: Printed by E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seyle, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Tygers head in St. Paules Church-yard. 1633. Small folio in 4s. Later full calf, rebacked with the original spine relaid; boards with gilt triple fillet borders , gilt floral cornerpieces, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, turn-ins roll-tooled in gilt, edges gilt, marbled endpapers; ; pp. [ii], 23–82; 1–298, [2 (blank)]; π1 d–k4 l2 D–2Q4 2R6, bound without initial blank, quires a–c suppressed as usual ( see below ); woodcut and typographic headpieces, woodcut initials and tailpieces; corners and edges rubbed, a few small scuffs to boards, small abrasion to rear board at head; upper corner of Z2 repaired with pagination to verso in manuscript, sporadic light toning (heavier to quires L and V), ff. L2, L3, 2G2, and 2G3 with some marginal dampstaining and spotting, f. L3 with marginal short closed tear at head, marginal paperflaw to upper corner of f. T4; armorial bookplate of the Earl of Mexborough to front pastedown. A particularly well-preserved example of the scarce 1633 folio of Fulke Greville’s (1554-1628) enigmatic and la

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