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

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Lot 786
  • 786

[TAYLOR, JOHN]

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • The Devil Turn'd Round-Head, or Pluto Become a Brownist. Being a Just Comparison, How the Devil is Become a Round-Head? In what Manner, and how Zealously (Like Them) He is Affected with the Moving of the Spirit. With the Holy Sisters Desire of Copulation (if He would Seem Holy, Sincere, and Pure) were it with the Devill Himself. As also, The Amsterdammian Definition of a Familist. [London, ca. 1642]
  • ink, paper leather
4to (7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.; 18 x 133 mm). Woodcut on title of the transformation of the devil, printer's ornaments. Brown morocco paneled gilt, smooth spine lettered gilt, gilt-ruled turn-ins; turn-ins offsetting to free endpapers.

Provenance

Wilfred Merton (bookplate) — H. Bradley Martin (bookplate; Sotheby's New York, 1 May 1990, lot 3258. acquisition: E.M. Lawson, 1990

Literature

Wing T449; ESTC R19927

Catalogue Note

First edition, the Bradley Martin copy.