Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things: Death; Judgment; Heaven; Hell. Part I, Death.

A very scarce meditation of death by the clergyman Joseph Trapp. The first edition of this very scarce work.Part I of Joseph Trapp's four part poem 'Thoughts Upon the Four Last Things', for which each part was published separately. This is Part I only, 'Death'.Register runs as A-G2.Collated, complete.In this work, Joseph Trapp, explores death through a religious lens, meditating on the subject and its inevitability.Trapp was a clergyman, pamphleteer, and academic. Though he was established in his profession, he was not well thought of as a poet, with Jonathan Swift refusing his dinner invites, in an attempt to avoid having to revise one of Trapp's poems. Disbound. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots and handling marks Good.