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Lot 363

PRYNNE (WILLIAM)
Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and Profitable Meditations, Raised from the Contemplation of These Three Leaves of Natures Volume, I. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, Digested into Three Distinct Poems. To Which is Prefixed, a Poeticall Description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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PRYNNE (WILLIAM)

Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and Profitable Meditations, Raised from the Contemplation of These Three Leaves of Natures Volume, I. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, Digested into Three Distinct Poems. To Which is Prefixed, a Poeticall Description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey, first edition, leaf with 4-line verse before title and blank 2A4, title within typographical border, errata leaf printed on recto only, lacks portrait, title and "Comfortable cordials" title shaved at lower margin, later blindstamped calf, spine refurbished [Wing P4013], small 4to, Thomas Cotes, for Michael Sparke Senior, dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene Arbor, 1641

Footnotes

"When from the lofty Castle I espie, The ragged rocks, which round about it lye". Mount-Ogrueil was written entirely in verse whilst Prynne was exiled to Jersey following his trial for sedition in 1637, and is dedicated to the prison's governor Philip Carteret. Released in 1640, Prynne notes on the errata leaf that he wishes to correct "presse errors, which have escaped in some coppies in my absence".

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