Publication details: Printed [by S. Stafford] for Edmund Mattes at the signe of the Hand and Plowgh in Fleet-Street,1600,
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Stock number: 71378
Sir William Cornwallis, member of Parliament for Oxford between 1604 and 1614, and member of James' I's privy chamber, was instrumental in introducing the Montaigne style of essay writing into the English canon. His style is engaging, digressive and confiding, his views highly subjective and eclectic; his subjects range from Youth, 'Mee thinkes this same Youth is a very sicknesse, a malady full of distemperatures like an Ague', to Resolution, 'The Worle is a booke, the words and actions of men Comentaries upon that volume...' to Fantasticknesse. With a dedication by Cornwallis' publisher, Henry Olney, to the three Harison sisters, one of whom, Lady Sara Hastings, was lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, and their cousin Lady Mary Dyer, all influential literary patrons.Rare in commerce.
FIRST EDITION of Part I (second part issued a year later), title with woodcut device, [McKerrow 281], several typographical head-pieces, pastedown with armorial bookplate of Algernon Capell, 2nd Earl of Essex (Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to William III) pp. [208], 8vo, contemporary calf boards with foliage blind stamp to each corner, edges rubbed, matching modern spine with raised bands, good
Bibliography: (ESTC S108699)
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