Lot 80
  • 80

Coryate, Thomas

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • The Odcombian Banquet: dished foorth by Thomas the Coriat, and Served in by a number of Noble Wits in prayse of his Crudities and Crambe too. [London:] Thomas Thorp, 1611
  • paper, ink, leather
Small 4to (6 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.; 172 x 133 mm). Woodcut ornament on title, woodcut headpiece and historiated initial; title reinserted, some soiling and light dampstaining. Modern red morocco, spine gilt-lettered.

Literature

STC 5810; ESTC S108718; Pforzheimer 219

Condition

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

First edition in this form. Apparently a pirated reprint of the 'Panegyricke verses' and other preliminary matter prefixed to Coryate's Crudities. The work consists of complimentary verses by Ben Jonson, Henry Neville, John Harrington, Ludovicus Lewkenor, Dudley Digges, Inigo Jones, Richard Corbet, John Chapman, Thomas Campion, William Fenton, John Owen, Thomas Farnaby, Henry Peecham, Michael Drayton, John Donne, and many others.