Callipaedia. A Poem. In Four Books. With Some Other Pieces. Written in Latin by Claudius Quillet, Made English by N. Rowe, To which is Prefix'd, Mr. Bayle's Account of His Life. London: E. Sanger and E. Curll, 1712.
[Together with]
An Epistle to Eudoxus. London, 1712.
[Together with]
A Panegyrical Elegy On the Death of Gassendus, The Celebrated Astronomer and Philosopher. London, 1712, 8vo, a.e.g.
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FIRST EDITION of Nicholas Rowe's translation of these works into English. A beautiful fine binding in the distinctively English "cottage roof" manner popularised by Samuel Mearne, here a notably excellent example of this famous style mostly associated with the decades following the Restoration of 1660, but which was occasionally (though rarely) found after the turn of the 18th century as with this very finely executed example. The tooling of this copy bears notable similarities to that of Mearne's workshop and so this was possibly done by a later follower using some of the earlier tools.
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Provenance:
Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to front pastedown.
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Size: 120 x 195 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(2), [2], a4, B4, a6, B8, C-F4, G2, A-E4, F6, A-F4, A-M4, A-D4, (2)]
Collates as complete with the frontispiece, all titles and the often lacking advertisement leaf (D4), together with the original blanks. The advertisement leaf includes an advert for the seventh volume of the famous Rowe edition of Shakespeare's Works, the first edition following the folios. Signatures frequently reset for each of the four books of the main text and then again for the final two works. Light pencil inscriptions to blanks. Mildly toned text, else very clean throughout. Internally excellent. Bookplate to front pastedown.
Contemporary red morocco very finely tooled in gilt in the 'cottage roof' manner. Both boards detached. Binding a little rubbed but with the gilt remaining bright and attractive. No external identifying features (ie no tooled labels, gilt titles, etc). A little wear to extremities of spine with minor loss. Aside from the detached boards, an exceptional copy, and a notably fine example of this bookbinding style.
