Accession number
PML 19044
Creator
Coryate, Thomas, approximately 1577-1617.
Published
London : Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], Anno Domini 1611.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
The title page is engraved; it and three of the other plates or illustrations are signed by William Hole.
Imprint from leaf following engraved title page, which reads: Three crude veines are presented in this booke following ... a most elegant oration, first written in the Latine tongue by Hermannus Kirchnerus ... Another also composed by the author of the former, in praise of trauell of Germanie ... Then ... the posthume poems of the authors father ...
Printer's and publisher's names from STC.
Separate t.p. for George Coryate's poems: Postuma fragmenta poematum Georgii Coryati ...
Includes index.
Signatures: [pi]² a⁸ b⁴ [chi]1 ²b⁸ c-g⁸ h-k⁴ B-C⁸ D⁸ (+²D1-²D3) E-3C⁸ 3D⁴ 3E² (misprinting '3E3' for 3E1).
Imprint from leaf following engraved title page, which reads: Three crude veines are presented in this booke following ... a most elegant oration, first written in the Latine tongue by Hermannus Kirchnerus ... Another also composed by the author of the former, in praise of trauell of Germanie ... Then ... the posthume poems of the authors father ...
Printer's and publisher's names from STC.
Separate t.p. for George Coryate's poems: Postuma fragmenta poematum Georgii Coryati ...
Includes index.
Signatures: [pi]² a⁸ b⁴ [chi]1 ²b⁸ c-g⁸ h-k⁴ B-C⁸ D⁸ (+²D1-²D3) E-3C⁸ 3D⁴ 3E² (misprinting '3E3' for 3E1).
Description
[196], 364, [23], 366-393, [23], 395-398, 403-655, [51] pages, [5] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (engravings, woodcuts), coats of arms, ports. ; 23 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Extensive annotations on front and rear endpapers, calculations of Coryate's mileage and a list of the panegyrical poets, probably in the hand of Jenings, dated 1656, 1657, 1659.
Provenance
John Davies of Hereford, inscriptions (leaves e9r, f3v, and h4v, including 4 lines of verse) and marginal annotations (predominantly pages 1-50), bequeathed by Davies to his son: Sylvanus Davies in 1618; William Weekley, who received it from a linen draper named Jenings, inscription, 1656 (front endleaf 1 recto); Charles Viscount Bruce of Ampthill, bookplate (printed title page verso); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., Sept. 1911.
Binding
Contemporary full calf over paper boards.
Classification
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