Loves Riddle. A Pastorall Comaedie, written, at the time of his being Kings Scholler in Westminster Schoole. London: Printed by John Dawson for Henry Seile, 1638. First edition, A4, B-F8, G4, (48 leaves, 96pp.), engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, title within a border of printer's ornaments. [Bound with:] ----. Naufragium ioculare, Comaedia.

COWLEY (Abraham)

Published by Londini: Impensis Henrici Seile, 1638

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First edition, A-F8 (48 leaves, 96pp.). 2 works bound in one, small 8vo (141 x 88 mm), a few edges of fore-margins a little chipped, small tear in margin of C3, front marbled endpapers lightly damp-stained, small ticket of Upham and Beet booksellers, later mid-nineteenth century full brown morocco, Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) English poet and essayist. "Cowley was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a pensioner on 21 April 1636, and became a scholar on 14 June 1637. Here on 2 February 1638 his Latin comedy 'Naufragium joculare' was acted by members of his college before a university audience, and published subsequently; the same year saw the publication of an English pastoral comedy, 'Love's riddle', apparently written at the age of sixteen." (OXFORD DNB). Pforzheimer, 227, 228; STC 5904, 5905; Wither to Prior, 221, 222.

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• Title: Loves Riddle. A Pastorall Comaedie, written, at the time of his being Kings Scholler in Westminster Schoole. London: Printed by John Dawson for Henry Seile, 1638. First edition, A4, B-F8, G4, (48 leaves, 96pp.), engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, title within a border of printer's ornaments. [Bound with:] ----. Naufragium ioculare, Comaedia.
• Publisher: Londini: Impensis Henrici Seile
• Publication Date: 1638
• Edition: 1st Edition
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