[North, Dudley, 3rd baron]

Folio (11 x 6 7/8 in.; 278 x 175 mm). Title and section titles with woodcut devices and within typographic borders, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, with blank P4, bibliographical notes on the author on front pastedown; lacking dedication leaf to Her Majesty of Bohemia, the unsigned leaf of songs after K1, and the third title page "Privadoes," ink markings and annotations, leaf H4v ink-stained, some spotting and soiling. Contemporary blind-ruled calf; rebacked, corners and edges mended.

Philip Bliss (armorial bookplate) — Sotheby's, 19 July 1990, lot 17. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

 

Wing N1283; ESTC R30747

lacking dedication leaf to Her Majesty of Bohemia, the unsigned leaf of songs after K1, and the third title page "Privadoes", ink markings and annotations, leaf H4v ink-stained, some spotting and soiling. Contemporary blind-ruled calf; rebacked, corners and edges mended.
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First edition of this miscellaneous collection of essay, letters, poems and devotional meditations composed at his Cambridgeshire house at Kirtling where he organized concerts at home with his children, grandchildren and servants. The only copy to appear at auction since 1975.