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HERBERT, George (1593-1633). The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations ... The second Edition. [Edited by Nicholas Ferrar.] Cambridge: T[homas] Buck and R[oger] Daniel, 1633. 12 o (140 x 80 mm). Title with typographical border, typographical and metalcut ornament. (Some pale dampstaining, light marginal worming.) Contemporary calf (some worming and rubbing to covers). Second edition of Herbert's Sacred Poems. George Herbert died in 1633, having seen only the publication of various Latin poems contributed to Cambridge collections, and his Oratio qua auspicatissimum Serenissimi Principis Caroli ex Hispaniis celebrauit Georgius Herbert (Cambridge, 1623). The poetry for which he is remembered was all published posthumously. Herbert, whilst on his death bed, entrusted his neighbor and acquaintance, Nicholas Ferrar, with the publication of a small manuscript volume of poetry. The first edition of Herbert's Sacred Poems appeared within a few week of Herbert's death, and the second later the same year. The typographical excellence of the first and second editions was such that Buck and Daniel's text and layout was followed for the next 17 editions, spanning 166 years. STC 13184.5, listing 14 other copies only; variant of Pforzheimer 466; F.E. Hutchinson. "The First Edition of Herbert's Temple", Oxford Bibliographical Society Proceedings and Papers , vol. V, part III, Oxford: 1939, pp. 189-197; A.F. Allison. Four Metaphysical Poets , (1973), no. 7; J. Hayward, English Poetry , (1950), no. 66.