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CHARLES CORNWALLIS
The Life and Death of ... Henry Prince of Wales. London: John Dawson for Nathaniel Butter, 1641. 8° (16 x 10.1cm), engraved frontispiece of Prince Henry by W. Marshall after Hole (waterstained, A2 the dedication leaf supplied from another copy, some cropping of margins, lacks the leaf of plates called for at end by ESTC), 19th-century calf, gilt edges (some chips and minor repairs). Provenance: purchased from Maggs, date unknown, for £5 5s. [and:]
CORNWALLIS, C. A Discourse of ... Henry, late Prince of Wales. London: [by Thomas Harper] for John Benson, 1641. 4° (182 x 134mm), engraved portrait by Marshall after Hole with the De Passe background added (heavy waterstain affecting frontispiece, imprint and lower margins of text), early 19th-century calf (rubbed, spine chipped). Provenance: Jo. Palliser (early ownership inscription on title) -- Gordonstoun Library -- Sir B. Throgmorton (bookseller's pencilled attributions) -- purchased from Maggs, date unknown, for £5 5s.
FIRST EDITIONS. Cornwallis's Life reports that Prince Henry had "one great match ... at tenis, on Saturday the 24 of October, the day before his last sicknesse," when the prince "negligently, carelessly, and wilfully ... as though his body had been of brasse, did play in his shirt, as if it had been in the heate of summer ...." (pp. 33-34). Again, in the Discourse, Cornwallis sounds positively indignant that "at tennis play", the prince "neither observed moderation, nor what appertained to his dignity and person, continuing oftimes his play for the space of three or four houres, and the same in his shirt, rather becoming an artisan than a prince ...." (pp. 16-17). Wing C-6330 & C-6329; Pforzheimer 213 (2nd work); not in Henderson. (2)
The Life and Death of ... Henry Prince of Wales. London: John Dawson for Nathaniel Butter, 1641. 8° (16 x 10.1cm), engraved frontispiece of Prince Henry by W. Marshall after Hole (waterstained, A2 the dedication leaf supplied from another copy, some cropping of margins, lacks the leaf of plates called for at end by ESTC), 19th-century calf, gilt edges (some chips and minor repairs). Provenance: purchased from Maggs, date unknown, for £5 5s. [and:]
CORNWALLIS, C. A Discourse of ... Henry, late Prince of Wales. London: [by Thomas Harper] for John Benson, 1641. 4° (182 x 134mm), engraved portrait by Marshall after Hole with the De Passe background added (heavy waterstain affecting frontispiece, imprint and lower margins of text), early 19th-century calf (rubbed, spine chipped). Provenance: Jo. Palliser (early ownership inscription on title) -- Gordonstoun Library -- Sir B. Throgmorton (bookseller's pencilled attributions) -- purchased from Maggs, date unknown, for £5 5s.
FIRST EDITIONS. Cornwallis's Life reports that Prince Henry had "one great match ... at tenis, on Saturday the 24 of October, the day before his last sicknesse," when the prince "negligently, carelessly, and wilfully ... as though his body had been of brasse, did play in his shirt, as if it had been in the heate of summer ...." (pp. 33-34). Again, in the Discourse, Cornwallis sounds positively indignant that "at tennis play", the prince "neither observed moderation, nor what appertained to his dignity and person, continuing oftimes his play for the space of three or four houres, and the same in his shirt, rather becoming an artisan than a prince ...." (pp. 16-17). Wing C-6330 & C-6329; Pforzheimer 213 (2nd work); not in Henderson. (2)
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