Viccars, John

Folio (12 5/8 x 8 3/8 in.; 320 x 213 mm). Additional engraved title by Wenceslaus Hollar, woodcut ornament on letterpress title, woodcut headpiece and decorative initials; occasional small marginal spots or smudges. Contemporary dark-brown morocco, gilt roll-tooled border with floral stamps at four corners, near smooth spine with a single rectangular compartment in gold, gilt edges; corners torn, foot of spine wormed, a few mends, spine faded.

?Abberry Merter of Amardel (signature on front pastedown)— Rev. Thomas Fuller — William Howell of Cranford (gift inscription from Fuller: "Liber Guil. Howell Cranfordensis ex dono ela. viri Thomae Fuller T.B. of ibid. Pastoris reverendi"; Fuller was rector of St. Dunstan's in Cranford, 1658). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 1985

STC 24696; ESTC S101773

occasional small marginal spots or smudges. Contemporary dark-brown morocco, gilt roll-tooled border with floral stamps at four corners, near smooth spine with a single rectangular compartment in gold, gilt edges; corners torn, foot of spine wormed, a few mends, spine faded
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First edition, apparently the only known book from Thomas Fuller's library. " ... an erudite and voluminous commentary on all 150 psalms using ancient, medieval, and modern versions in ten different languages, including Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic. Much of the commentary is extracted from rabbinical authors, but under the heading ‘alius auctor’ (‘another author’) Viccars provides his own remarks, which include, besides extensive classical quotations, sidelights on his travels with descriptions of monuments and eyewitness accounts of Vesuvius, the Alps, and other natural marvels. The book cost John and his younger brother Samuel much money for Syriac and Arabic types specially cast (the latter only the second Arabic font produced in England) and a fine engraving by Wenceslas Hollar for the title-page" (ONDB).

According to Pforzheimer (621) the copy of Thomas Lodge's Scillaes Metamorphosis (1589) belonging to Folger was Fuller's copy, but the Folger Library catalogue quotes the inscription of a physician with the same name.