Certaine learned and elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke written in his Youth, and familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney.. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Certaine learned and elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke written in his Youth, and familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney.

London: Printed by E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seyle, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Tygers head in St. Paules Church-yard. 1633. Small folio in 4s. Later full calf, rebacked with the original spine relaid; boards with gilt triple fillet borders , gilt floral cornerpieces, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, turn-ins roll-tooled in gilt, edges gilt, marbled endpapers; ; pp. [ii], 23-82; 1-298, [2 (blank)]; p1 d-k4 l2 D-2Q4 2R6, bound without initial blank, quires a-c suppressed as usual (see below); woodcut and typographic headpieces, woodcut initials and tailpieces; corners and edges rubbed, a few small scuffs to boards, small abrasion to rear board at head; upper corner of Z2 repaired with pagination to verso in manuscript, sporadic light toning (heavier to quires L and V), ff. L2, L3, 2G2, and 2G3 with some marginal dampstaining and spotting, f. L3 with marginal short closed tear at head, marginal paperflaw to upper corner of f. T4; armorial bookplate of the Earl of Mexborough to front pastedown.A particularly well-preserved example of the scarce 1633 folio of Fulke Greville's (1554-1628) enigmatic and labyrinthine writings, published five years after his death, printed by Elizabeth Purslowe, widow of the printer George Purslowe (d. 1632), one of the first women to be recognised as a 'master printer'. Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes was seen through the press with evident care by Greville's friend, secretary, and executor John Coke (probably with the assistance of Kenelm Digby). The volume collects the majority of Greville's writings, the remainder following in the Remains (1670) and The Life of the renowned Sr Philip Sidney (1652, [1651]), the latter a dedicatory introduction to an edition of Greville's poems and plays which never materialised, the title editorial. The printer, Elizabeth Purslowe, lost her title of 'master printer' in 1637 after becoming involved in unlicensed, anti-Laudian printing and material critical of the King. Born to a prominent Warwickshire family, Greville was educated with Sidney, the two entering Shrewsbury School on the same day. Following studies at Jesus College, Cambridge (Greville) and Christ Church, Oxford (Sidney), the pair entered court in 1575. Greville's account of his and Sidney's life at this time records their attempts to lead more active lives in the cause of the radical (and international) Protestantism they both espoused and wished to promote - attempts consistently stymied by the Queen. In 1586 - during a mission Greville was prevented from joining - Sidney was killed on the battlefield at Zutphen, 'that fatall Low Country action [.] in which this worthy Gentleman lost his life' (Life). It was a loss from which Greville probably never recovered, Sidney the exception proving the rule of Greville's native pessimism, a brief glimpse 'in this decrepit age of the world' (ibid.) of a lost golden age. What followed was a long, slightly melancholy life of service, including a decade of forced retirement (Cecil's belated reprisal for Greville's loyalty to the disgraced and executed Earl of Essex) during which he wrote many of the works for which he is now remembered. After Cecil's death, he returned to public life, becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer and Privy Councillor under James I - even serving briefly under Charles I. He died in 1628 at the hands of a disgruntled servant angered by the meagre provision made for him in his master's will. The writings exhibit an austere intelligence and sensibility all their own, their famous difficulty - appreciated by Coleridge and Hazlitt among others - expressive of a mind riven by conflicting forces. 'A monarchist who nonetheless perpetrates a devastating critique of monarchy; and an orthodox Christian who [.] exposes the most disturbing energies of his religion' (Cummings), Greville's 'dualism' is rooted in 'the essential division in man's fallen nature' (Bullough). It was not u.…