Selections from the Fox Pointe Manor Library

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Lot 245
  • 245

Puttenham, George

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Description

  • The Arte of English Poesie. Contrived into Three Bookes: the First of Poets and Poesie, the Second of Proportion, the Third of Ornament. London: Printed by Richard Field, 1589
  • paper, ink, leather
4to (7 1/4 x 5 in.; 184  127 mm). Woodcut device (McKerrow 222) on title-page, woodcut portrait of Elizabeth I, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, and diagrams; lacks first and last blank leaves. Dark green levant morocco by Rivière, floral and ornamental gilt border on pointillé ground on sides, gilt dentelles, spine gilt, edges gilt.

Literature

STC 20519; ESTC 123166; Pforzheimer 12

Catalogue Note

First and only edition—"an ambitious work of literary history and criticism as well as a rhetorical handbook for the practising poet" (ODNB).