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LYLY, John (1554?-1606). Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit, London: by John Beale for John Parker, [1623].
2 parts in one volume, small 4°, woodcut vignette on both titles (a few minor repairs), crimson morocco by Riviere and Son, covers panelled in gilt and black, gilt spine and edges. Provenance: Herbert Riley (bookplate).
There were fifteen editions of Euphues between 1579 and 1636, the second part, Euphues and his England, first appearing in 1580. It was a work which exercised a poweful, if temporary influence on the English language. In his preface to Lyly's Five Court Comedies of 1632, Edward Blount wrote of the sensation it first caused: "All our Ladies were then his Scollers; And that Beautie in court, which could not partly Euphueisme, was as little regarded as shee which, now there, speakes not French." STC 17065; cf. Grolier English 10.
2 parts in one volume, small 4°, woodcut vignette on both titles (a few minor repairs), crimson morocco by Riviere and Son, covers panelled in gilt and black, gilt spine and edges. Provenance: Herbert Riley (bookplate).
There were fifteen editions of Euphues between 1579 and 1636, the second part, Euphues and his England, first appearing in 1580. It was a work which exercised a poweful, if temporary influence on the English language. In his preface to Lyly's Five Court Comedies of 1632, Edward Blount wrote of the sensation it first caused: "All our Ladies were then his Scollers; And that Beautie in court, which could not partly Euphueisme, was as little regarded as shee which, now there, speakes not French." STC 17065; cf. Grolier English 10.
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