1641 Joshua Sylvester English Works Bartas Divine Weeks Tobacco Battered FOLIO

1641 Joshua Sylvester English Works Bartas Divine Weeks Tobacco Battered FOLIO

An incredibly rare, valuable, and impressive 17^th-century printing of the English works of poetry of Joshua Sylvester. While Sylvester wrote numerous poems, his most famous, both during his life and after, was without question his English translation of Guillaume du Bartas’s ‘The Divine Weeks’. It is known that Sylvester’s English translation of Bartas had a direct influence on John Milton’s famous ‘Paradise Lost’.

Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas was a 16^th-century French Huguenot poet who is best remembered for his epic poems ‘Weeks’ or ‘The Semaines’. These masterpieces were an expansion based on the Book of Genesis and the creation of the world.

This 1641 printing of the works and translations of Sylvester includes numerous poems such as:

• ‘Tobacco Battered, & the Pipes Shattered’
• ‘The parliament of vertues royal’
• ‘Paradoxe que les adversitez’ by Odet de La Noue’
• ‘Quatrains’ by Guy du Faur Pibrac

The DNB notes this book includes:

“a multitude of Sylvester’s translations, miscellanies, Posthumi, sonnets, epistles, elegies, epitaphs, Epigrams and other delights and devices.”

Item number: #7690

Price: $950

SYLVERTER, Joshua

Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes: vvith a complete collection of all the other most delightfull vvorkes,

London: Printed by Robert Young, and are to be sold by William Hope, at the signe of the Unicorne in Cornehill, 1641. Second edition.

Details:

• Collation:
  • [30], 657, [1]
  • Pagination is consistent with second edition collation.
  • Wanting pg. 573-578, 580-582; otherwise complete
• References:
  • Wing D 2405A
  • McKerrow 405
    • Title/publisher from McKerrow – identified through printer’s device
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight & secure
  • Size: ~13.5in X 9.5in (34.5cm x 24cm)

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