Coryate, Thomas. Coryats crudities ; hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia co[m]monly called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling members of this kingdome

ESTC number: S108716
Folger bibliographic ID: 162993
STC number: 5808
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: 218
Folger call number: STC 5808 copy 3
Folger holdings ID: 156197
Accession Number: cs1762

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

The title page is engraved; it and three of the other plates or illustrations are signed by William Hole Imprint from leaf following engraved title page, which reads: Three crude veines are presented in this booke following ... a most elegant oration, first written in the Latine tongue by Hermannus Kirchnerus ... Another also composed by the author of the former, in praise of trauell of Germanie ... Then ... the posthume poems of the authors father ... Printer's and publisher's names from STC Signatures: pi1 ²pi1 a-b⁸ ²b⁴ c-g⁸ h-l⁴ B-C⁸ D⁸(D1 + [chi]3 signed: D1, D2, unsigned) E-3C⁸ 3D⁴ [3E]¹ (signed Eee3), [3F]¹ "Posthuma fragmenta poematum Georgii Coryati" has separate dated title page; register is continuous Includes index With a final note apologizing for the errata, followed by an errata leaf Portions of copies 1 and 2 also available as a digital reproduction

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1986-1987. Time, the greatest innovator (catalog p. 82) (Copy 1) Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004. Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution. Opening: S4v-S5r (catalog entry 36) (Copy 1)

Condition note

Partially conserved February 2017

Item information about Folger STC 5808 copy 3

Imperfect: wanting engraved t.p. and leaves P2, 2G1, 2P1-2Q8; gathering ²b⁴ bound after a3. Manuscript notes, including biographical note about author on ²pi1v; manuscript poem on front fly-leaf, with portrait of Coryate pasted beneath. Brown panelled calf binding is broken at the spine, resulting in detached leaves and gatherings in first section of book. Provenance: bookplate of David Garrick; bought by Folger from Pickering & Chatto, December 1927

Extended title: Coryats crudities ; hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia co[m]monly called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling members of this kingdome
Alternate titles: Three crude veines are presented in this booke following, Posthuma fragmenta poematum Georgii Coryati

Europe

author: Coryate, Thomas, approximately 1577-1617
associated with: Coryate, George, -1607
associated with: Kirchner, Hermann, 1562-1620
printmaker: Hole, William, -1624
former owner: Garrick, David, 1717-1779
former owner: Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937
former owner: Lefferts, Marshall C. (Marshall Clifford), 1848-1928
former owner: Perry, Marsden J. (Marsden Jasiel), 1850-1935