1689 FOLIO 1ed Abraham Cowley Six Books of Plants Herbs Coca Flowers English

1689 FOLIO 1^ed Abraham Cowley Six Books of Plants Herbs Coca Flowers English

“What shall I do to be for ever known,

And make the Age to come own?”

I shall like beasts or common people die,

         Unless you write my elegy.”

 – Abraham Cowley, The Motto

Abraham Cowley was one of the leading English poets during the 17^th-century. This 1689 first edition of the third part of Cowley’s works features his famous ‘Six Books of Plants’. This set of poems is famous for having the earliest reference to coca in the English language in the poem ‘A Legend of Coca’.

Item number: #7711

Price: $950

COWLEY, Abraham

The third part of the works of Mr Abraham Cowley: being his six books of plants, never before printed in English, viz, the first and second of herbs, the third and fourth of flowers, the fifth and sixth of trees: now made English.

London: Printed for Charles Harper, at the Flower-de-luce over against S. Dunstan’s church in Fleet-street, 1689. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [20], 166, [2]
• References: Lowndes II:539; Perkin B 7; Wing C 6665
  • Perkin notes that Cowley’s “fame as a poet exceeded even that of Milton”.
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~11.5in X 7.75in (29.5cm x 19.5cm)

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