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Cowley (Abraham)

Loves Riddle. A Pastorall Comaedie, written, at the time of his being Kings Scholler in Westminster Schoole. London: Printed by John Dawson for Henry Seile, 1638. First edition, A4, B-F8, G4, (48 leaves, 96pp.), engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, title within a border of printerís ornaments. [Bound with:] ----. Naufragium ioculare, Comaedia.

Londini: Impensis Henrici Seile, 1638.,

3687,50 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, Regno Unito)

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Autore
Cowley (Abraham)
Editori
Londini: Impensis Henrici Seile, 1638.
Soggetto
ENGLISH LITERATURE

Descrizione

First edition, A-F8 (48 leaves, 96pp.). 2 works bound in one, small 8vo (141 x 88 mm), a few edges of fore-margins a little chipped, small tear in margin of C3, front marbled endpapers lightly damp-stained, small ticket of Upham and Beet booksellers, later mid-nineteenth century full brown morocco, Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) English poet and essayist. ìCowley was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a pensioner on 21 April 1636, and became a scholar on 14 June 1637. Here on 2 February 1638 his Latin comedy ëNaufragium joculareí was acted by members of his college before a university audience, and published subsequently; the same year saw the publication of an English pastoral comedy, ëLove's riddleí, apparently written at the age of sixteen.îó(OXFORD DNB). Pforzheimer, 227, 228; STC 5904, 5905; Wither to Prior, 221, 222.
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