Herbert, George (ed. Nicholas Ferrar)

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 USD

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Description

The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: Printed by Thom. Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633
paper, ink, leather

12mo (5 5/8 x 3 in.; 143 x 76 mm). Title within border of printer's ornaments, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; ¶4 (dedication leaf) bound before ¶2. Nineteenth-century dark blue morocco by F. Bedford, paneled gilt, gilt cornerpieces, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, the spine in six compartments richly gilt (two reserved for lettering); joints slightly rubbed.

Provenance

The Bute Library (Cardiff Castle armorial bookplate, Christie's London, 15 March 1995, lot 120)

Literature

STC 13183; ESTC S122349; Grolier, Wither to Prior II:438; Hayward 66; F.E. Hutchinson, "The First Edition of Herbert's Temple," Oxford Bibiliographical Society Proceedings and Papers, vol. V, Part III (Oxford, 1939): pp. 189–197; Pforzheimer 465

Catalogue Note

First edition, first issue, the handsomely preserved Bute Library copy. The present copy has the dated issue of the title-page; F. E. Hutchinson persuasively argues that this is the earlier issue, and that the undated title is a later cancel-leaf. Pforzheimer, citing L. S. Livingston, concurs with Hutchinson, on the grounds that the undated issue is more similar to the title-page of the second edition.