Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

/

Lot 208
  • 208

Crashaw, Richard

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Log in to view results
bidding is closed

Description

  • Crashaw, Richard
  • Epigrammatum sacrorum liber. Cambridge: the Printers to the University [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel], 1634
  • Ink, paper and cow
8vo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; 140 x 88 mm.). Title page within woodcut border with printer's device, woodcut initials. Modern half calf. 

Provenance

Brown-Lindsay Library, United Persbyterian College (bookplate) — H. Bradley-Martin (Bookplate; Sotheby's, 1990, lot 2737). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

Literature

STC 6009

Catalogue Note

Rare first edition of Crashaw's first book. 

It includes the famous verses: "Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit" (p. 37) [The modest Nymph saw the god, and blushed] later translated by John Dryden as "The conscious water saw its God and blushed."