[ANTIQUARIAN] CERTAINE LEARNED AND ELEGANT WORKES OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE FULKE LORD BROOK, WRITTEN IN HIS YOUTH, AND FAMILIAR EXERCISE WITH SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. THE SEUERALL NAMES OF WHICH WORKES THE FOLOWING PAGE DOTH DECLARE

Fulke Lord Brooke Greville

London: Henry Seyle, 1633.

Full Leather. First Edition. Folio; in full calf; (i-ii) 23-82 1-298 pages; complete but lacking the rear end papers; trivial loss to the corner of the front end paper; previous owners writing on the front eend paper and paste down; professionally rebacked with a new title label stamped in gilt; pages are toned; some damp staining; scattered worm holes. ~~From OCLC “ In all known copies of this work the pagination begins with 23, signature d. It is believed the book originally began with “A treatise on religion” surprised by order Archbishop Laud. Grosart thinks the missing pages were prefatory matter on the life of the author “with further details of his murder than his friends cared to let the world read” - Biographia Britannica ~~Lorde Brooke was stabbed by his servant Ralph Haywood who believed he had been cheated by being left out of his master’s will. After this Haywood turned the knife on himself. Lorde Brooke suffered from his wound four weeks until his death on the 30th of September 1628. He was never married and left no heirs. He had planned to share a tomb with his life long friend Philip Sydney. ~~~~ (STC 12361).

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