Item #5608 Micro-Cosmographie or A Piece Of The World Discovered In Essayes And Characters by John Earle. Gwendolen Murphy.

Micro-Cosmographie or A Piece Of The World Discovered In Essayes And Characters by John Earle

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Hardcover. 73 pages. 27 x 20 cm. Written at the age of 27 in 1627 and published anonymously when a Fellow of Merton College, it presents the experience of a man of the world as well as a cleric, and is even more remarkable since Earle was at the time an untravelled student at Oxford. Book-plate. Limited edition, copy 374 of 400, printed by Robert Gibbings on English hand-made paper. CHANTICLEER 55. Original red buckram. Small rear cover spot. Near fine. Item #5608

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