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BRATHWAIT, Richard (1588-1673). The English Gentleman. London: Felix Kyngston, 1633. Engraved title by Robert Vaughan with folding explanatory leaf bound in, letterpress title, woodcut head-pieces and initial letters. Bound with: The English Gentlewoman. London: B. Alsop and T. Fawcet for Michaell Sparke, 1631. Engraved title by William Marshall with folding explanatory leaf bound in, letterpress title, woodcut head-pieces and initial letters. (Occasional light soiling.)
2 works in 1 volume, 4° (185 x 140mm.). Contemporary English gold-tooled black morocco over pasteboard, with dog-tooth fillets, leafy sprays forming the centre and cornerpieces, flat spine gilt, g.e. (slightly rubbed, front joint restored, back joint cracked). Provenance: E. M. Cox (book label); E. Hubert Litchfield (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the English Gentlewoman bound with the second edition of the Gentleman, which was first published in 1630. It was dedicated to Thomas, Viscount Wentworth: the Gentlewoman which followed a year later was dedicated to Wentworth's wife, Lady Arabella. Brathwait was a poet, dramatist and travel writer who became deputy-lieutenant of the county of Westmoreland, justice of the peace and later lord of the manor of Catterick. STC 3564 and 3565; Wither to Prior I, 67 and 68.
2 works in 1 volume, 4° (185 x 140mm.). Contemporary English gold-tooled black morocco over pasteboard, with dog-tooth fillets, leafy sprays forming the centre and cornerpieces, flat spine gilt, g.e. (slightly rubbed, front joint restored, back joint cracked). Provenance: E. M. Cox (book label); E. Hubert Litchfield (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the English Gentlewoman bound with the second edition of the Gentleman, which was first published in 1630. It was dedicated to Thomas, Viscount Wentworth: the Gentlewoman which followed a year later was dedicated to Wentworth's wife, Lady Arabella. Brathwait was a poet, dramatist and travel writer who became deputy-lieutenant of the county of Westmoreland, justice of the peace and later lord of the manor of Catterick. STC 3564 and 3565; Wither to Prior I, 67 and 68.