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WITHER, George (1588-1667). A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, quickened with metrical illustrations, both morall and divine, and disposed into lotteries. London: A.M. for Richard Royston, 1635 [1634].
2° (229 x 177mm). Additional engraved title by Marshall, portrait of the author by John Payne and 200 circular emblematic engravings by Crispin de Passe, page of the lotteries at the end in woodcut. (The pointers to this page and part of the woodcut illustrations in facsimile, B1, M2, N1, V2-3, X1, Z1 & Ii1 from another copy, several closed tears and repairs, slightly affecting text, the worst being at C3, E1, N4 & Kk2-3, a few minor spots and stains.) Green levant morocco gilt by Worsfold, gilt edges. Provenance: Thomas Jefferson McKee (bookplate); Newton Hall (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Praz p. 177; STC 25900c.
Sir Thomas BROWNE (1605-1682). Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenets, and commonly presumed truths. London: T.H. for Edward Dod, 1646. 2 (267 x 171mm). (Lacks the final blank, light discolouration.) Brown morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf dated 1904, alternating gilt floral and leafy tool in otherwise blindstamped compartments of spine, sides decorated in blind and gilt using the same tools, the whole contained within triple gilt fillet borders, the inner fillet occasionally broken by the blindstamped decoration, gilt edges. FIRST EDITION. Keynes 73B; Wing B-5159. (2)
2° (229 x 177mm). Additional engraved title by Marshall, portrait of the author by John Payne and 200 circular emblematic engravings by Crispin de Passe, page of the lotteries at the end in woodcut. (The pointers to this page and part of the woodcut illustrations in facsimile, B1, M2, N1, V2-3, X1, Z1 & Ii1 from another copy, several closed tears and repairs, slightly affecting text, the worst being at C3, E1, N4 & Kk2-3, a few minor spots and stains.) Green levant morocco gilt by Worsfold, gilt edges. Provenance: Thomas Jefferson McKee (bookplate); Newton Hall (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Praz p. 177; STC 25900c.
Sir Thomas BROWNE (1605-1682). Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenets, and commonly presumed truths. London: T.H. for Edward Dod, 1646. 2
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