TAYLOR, JOHN, the Water Poet . Taylor's Motto. Et habeo, Et Careo, Et Curo. London: [E. Allde] for J. T[rundle] & H G[osson] 1621. 8vo, 153 x 100 (6 x 3 15/16 in.), early nineteenth-century speckled calf, by Larkins, broken, folding cloth chemise and slipcase, engraved title torn and expertly repaired, side-note on A4v cropped, small repair to inner margin of A8, a few small repairs to corners, soiling, light foxing, last leaf stained . FIRST EDITION. Collation: A-D8 E4, 36 leaves, unpaginated emblematic engraved title on A2r by Thomas Cockson "The Embleme explained" on A1v, woodcut head-pieces and initials, type ornament quarter-border at head and foot of each page. STC 23800; Grolier Wither to Prior 853. RARE. John Taylor (1580-1653), self-designated the "Water Poet", was a prodigious versifier of humble origin who, having failed in grammar school, became a Thames waterman and, for a while, a collector of the perquisuite of wine for the Lieutenant of the Tower. Although most of his many brochures were published at his own expense, he increased his earnings by "presenting" them to distinguished personalities; this and his winning personality obtained for him the patronage of Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Samuel Rowlands and others. In the Motto , written in response to George Wither's motto "Nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo", he sets forth his moral views and sketches his own autobiography. The famous passage concerning his misfortunes in Latin declinations is found on E1v: "I was well entred (forty Winters since) As farre as possum in my Accidence ; And reading but from possum to posset , There I was mir'de, and could no further get". At the end is included a list of "the names of many of the bookes I have written" (E2v-E3v). Provenance : Richard Douglass Fisher of Baltimore, bookplate.
TAYLOR, JOHN, the Water Poet . Taylor's Motto. Et habeo, Et Careo, Et Curo. London: [E. Allde] for J. T[rundle] & H G[osson] 1621. 8vo, 153 x 100 (6 x 3 15/16 in.), early nineteenth-century speckled calf, by Larkins, broken, folding cloth chemise and slipcase, engraved title torn and expertly repaired, side-note on A4v cropped, small repair to inner margin of A8, a few small repairs to corners, soiling, light foxing, last leaf stained . FIRST EDITION. Collation: A-D8 E4, 36 leaves, unpaginated emblematic engraved title on A2r by Thomas Cockson "The Embleme explained" on A1v, woodcut head-pieces and initials, type ornament quarter-border at head and foot of each page. STC 23800; Grolier Wither to Prior 853. RARE. John Taylor (1580-1653), self-designated the "Water Poet", was a prodigious versifier of humble origin who, having failed in grammar school, became a Thames waterman and, for a while, a collector of the perquisuite of wine for the Lieutenant of the Tower. Although most of his many brochures were published at his own expense, he increased his earnings by "presenting" them to distinguished personalities; this and his winning personality obtained for him the patronage of Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Samuel Rowlands and others. In the Motto , written in response to George Wither's motto "Nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo", he sets forth his moral views and sketches his own autobiography. The famous passage concerning his misfortunes in Latin declinations is found on E1v: "I was well entred (forty Winters since) As farre as possum in my Accidence ; And reading but from possum to posset , There I was mir'de, and could no further get". At the end is included a list of "the names of many of the bookes I have written" (E2v-E3v). Provenance : Richard Douglass Fisher of Baltimore, bookplate.
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