Quarles, Francis

4to (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.; 187 x 140 mm). Letterpress verse frontispiece, engraved architectural title with text behind a curtain; imprint date erased from title, a few marginal smudges, minor worming in margins of some leaves near the end. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep, gilt-ruled edges; extremities worn and mended.

Maria Rosaea (gift inscription from her brother William, dated 1658 on  front flyleaf) — Mary Du Pratt (ex libris, given to Ann Saltmarsh according to a note on rear flyleaf "for Prior's Poems which she borrowed and lost some time before") — Lawrence Strangman (bookplate, Sotheby's, 19 July 1965, lot 185). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1966

STC 20527.5 (noting three other copies with date erased from title); ESTC S107096; not in Pforzheimer

imprint date erased from title, a few marginal smudges, minor worming in margins of some leaves near the end. Contemporary blindruled sheep, gilt-ruled edges; extremities worn and mended.
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First published in 1629, the poem's subject was borrowed from Sydney's Arcadia, having as its theme the triumph of love and faithfulness over death.