Passions Minde Generall by Thomas Wright (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. LXIII, 352 + 17 S. A very good copy. No dust jacket. --- CONTENTS: Introduction: xi - - The Passions of the Minde in Generall - - TITLE PAGE (1604) - - TITLE PAGE (1630) - - THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY (1604) - - THE PREFACE (1604) - - COMMENDATORY POEMS (1604) - - TEXT (1630) - - First Book: The Essence of Passions: 1 - - Second Book: Foure Effects of Inordinate Passions: 47 - - Third Book: The Means to Know, and Mortifie Passions: What - - Prudence and Policie May Be Practised in Them: 77 Fourth Book: How Passions May Bee Discouered: 104 - - Fifth Book: The Meanes to Mooue Passions: 149 - - Sixth Book: The Defects or Imperfections of Mens Soules: 294 - - AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE, Containing all the principall things mentioned in [these books] (1630) - - A Succinct Philosophical declaration of the nature of Clymactericall yeeres, - - occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth (1604) - - TITLE PAGE - - TEXT. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition thus. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, lxiii [introduction] + ii + 352 [facsimile] + 4 [index] + 17 [philosophical declaration] pages, gilt spine titles on beige cloth over black bards. A very good minus, sturdy hard cover first edition thus with minor shelf wear BUT one corner bumped, little exterior soiling BUT with foxing to the fore-edges; binding solid, paper cream white with a very slight touch of foxing to the endpapers. Without dust jacket, if issued. There seems to be some controversy over which 'Thomas Wright' this is. The Sloan introduction contends it is the work of an ex-Jesuit priest who had disappeared twenty years previous. But to this "Thomas Wright (fl. 1604), a protégé of Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton [q. v.], [who] had travelled in Italy, must be ascribed ?A Succinct Philosophicall Declaration of the Nature of Clymactericall Yeeres, occasioned by the Death of Queene Elizabeth. Written by T. W[right]. Printed for T. Thorpe,? London, 1604, 4to, and ?The Passions of the Minde in generall. By Thomas Wright,? London, 1601, 4to, which reappeared in 1604 ?corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented,? and was reissued in 1621 and 1630. This work was dedicated to Southampton in the hope that he may be ?delivered from inordinate passions,? and had commendatory verses by B. I. [? Ben Jonson]." Dictionary of National Biography. No matter. The work stands, and both Wrights have long been wronged. Without dust jacket (if issued).

Hardcover. Condition: Used. Used very good condition. Minor bumps/wear at edges/corners. Pages are clean and bright. Spine is straight and tight.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good +. Quarter tan cloth over black cloth covered boards with gilt decorations, black particulars, and gilt particulars in black compartment to spine and debossed emblem to front board. Previous owner's stamp to lower edge of title page; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has light foxing to top edge, but is otherwise clean and unmarked. Small blue marking to top edge of front board and some scuffing to fore edge of rear board; otherwise, boards are clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight and square.

LXIII, 352, 17 S., Normalformat 21 cm, Halbleinen mit blindgeprägter Illustration u. goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. Mit Falttafel u. Vignetten. Text in Englisch. Exemplar sehr gut erhalten.