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GREVILLE, Fulke, Lord Brooke (1554-1628). Certain Learned and Elegant Workes... Written in his Youth, and familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney. London: E.P. for Henry Seyle, 1633.
2o (241 x 150 mm). Woodcut and typographic head- and tail-pieces and initial capitals. (Without first blank, a few marginal tears, one leaf stained, marginal wormhole at end, some other minor browning, mostly marginal.) Contemporary English blind-ruled calf, edges sprinkled red (expertly rebacked in matching calf, two board corners worn.) Provenance: Cosmo George, Duke of Gordon (engraved armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, bound like all copies without quires a-c, the pagination commencing with p.23 due to the decision not to include the author's "Treatise on Religion". Containing Greville's verse "Treatise of Humane Learning," and "An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour," two tragedies, Alaham and Mustapha, plus the important sonnet sequence Caelica and other works. Greville, and important Elizabethan figure, was, as a young man, an associate of such poets as Sir Philip Sidney and Samuel Daniel and in later life was a patron of William Davenant. STC 12361; Grolier, Wither to Prior 406; Hayward 68; Pforzheimer 437.
2o (241 x 150 mm). Woodcut and typographic head- and tail-pieces and initial capitals. (Without first blank, a few marginal tears, one leaf stained, marginal wormhole at end, some other minor browning, mostly marginal.) Contemporary English blind-ruled calf, edges sprinkled red (expertly rebacked in matching calf, two board corners worn.) Provenance: Cosmo George, Duke of Gordon (engraved armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, bound like all copies without quires a-c, the pagination commencing with p.23 due to the decision not to include the author's "Treatise on Religion". Containing Greville's verse "Treatise of Humane Learning," and "An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour," two tragedies, Alaham and Mustapha, plus the important sonnet sequence Caelica and other works. Greville, and important Elizabethan figure, was, as a young man, an associate of such poets as Sir Philip Sidney and Samuel Daniel and in later life was a patron of William Davenant. STC 12361; Grolier, Wither to Prior 406; Hayward 68; Pforzheimer 437.