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Coryate, Thomas (?1577-1617).
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Coryats crudities: hastily gobled up in five moneths travells... newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling members of this kingdome. London: W. S[tansby], 1611
4to (214 x 146mm.), [198], 364, [23], 366-393, [23], 395-398, 403-655, [51]pp., illustration: engraved title-page, 4 engraved plates (2 folding), engraved illustrations within text, woodcut initials and headpieces, binding: contemporary calf, gilt double-fillet border, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco lettering-piece, green edges, title-page mounted, folding plates creased and stained, spotting, binding worn, upper hinge cracked, page edges paint stained
Provenance
Roger Corham, possibly the lord of the manor of Brown Candover, Hampshire, signature on title-page
Literature
Wing C5808; Keynes Donne, 70
Catalogue Note
Coryate's eccentric account of his peregrinations on foot through Europe in 1608. A "there and back again" to Venice, Coryate ended his journey by literally hanging up his shoes in the parish church at Odcombe. The book is renowned for its series of faux-heroic elegies on the author's achievements by Jonson, Campion, Donne and others of the Mermaid Tavern set.