Lot 1049
  • 1049

[Dibdin, Thomas Frognall] - Francis Quarles

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  • [Dibdin, Thomas Frognall] - Francis Quarles
  • Judgment and mercy for afflicted Souls: or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers by Francis Quarles. A new Edition; with a biographical and critical introduction by Reginalde Wolfe. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807
  • Ink, paper and cow
8vo (7 1/2 x 5 in.; 190 x 125 mm). Francis Quarles portrait as frontispiece, title in red and black, a 48-page introduction by Dibdin under the pseudonym of Reginalde Wolfe. Uniformly browned. Early twentieth-century half dark blue morocco with corners. Very slightly rubbed. 

Provenance

acquisition: Gift of Seven Gables, 1968

Literature

Jackson 10; Windle and Pippin A7a

Catalogue Note

Accurate reprint, with modernized orthography, and an arresting frontispiece portrait.