Lot 95•
BRAITHWAITE (RICHARD) The English Gentlewoman; English Gentleman, 2 works in 1, FIRST EDITION, 1631-133; JOHN DONNE. Biathanatos, 1700 (2)
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BRAITHWAITE (RICHARD)
The English Gentlewoman, drawne out to the full Body: expressing, What Habilliments doe best attire her, What Ornaments doe best adorne her, What Complements doe best accomplish her, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved pictorial title, folding letterpress "Meaning of the Frontispiece" (some losses to text, short tear to engraved title repaired on verso with paper tab, damp-stain to final 2 leaves (final leaf repaired with loss of side-note on verso), B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, for Michael Sparke, 1631, bound after: The English Gentleman... the Second, Edition: Revised, Corrected and Enlarged, additional engraved pictorial title, folding letterpress "Draught of the frontispiece" (tear neatly repaired), the engraved title soiled, shaved at upper margin and laid down with short early ink annotation ("O Lord have mercy upon me") and name (?Robert Jarrell), Printed by Felix Kyngston, to be Sold by Robert Bostocke, 1633, 2 works bound in 1 vol., blind-stamped calf with gilt armorial stamp on upper cover, refurbished and rebacked, with gilt morocco spine labels, gauffered gilt edges [ESTC S122488, S104637], small 4to (177 x 132mm.), [1631-3]--DONNE (JOHN) Biathanatos. A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise, second edition, title within 2-line fillet border, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked to match retaining earlier morocco spine label [Keynes 49], 8vo, Printed in the Year 1700 (2)
Footnotes
Gentlewoman is a variant with leaf 2[dagger]4v. lacking mention of the appendix, but including the appendix (Hhi-Iii but with Hhi signed "Iii", and errata leaf signed "Ii2"); p.229 is mis-numbered 221, with the previous 7 pages unnumbered.
Provenance: First title, John Squibb, 2 ink inscriptions on title to "Gentlewoman", and blank p.232 of "Gentleman"; James Dearden (1798-1862), gilt armorial arms on upper cover.