Lot 126
Bosworth, William
The Chast and Lost Lovers
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Lively shadowed in the Persons of Arcadius and Sepha, and Illustrated with the severall Stories of Haemon and Antigone, Eramio and Amissa, Phaon and Sappho, Delithason and Verista: being a description of severall Lovers smiling with delight, and with hopes fresh as their youth, and fair as their beauties in the beginning of their Affections, and covered with Blood and Horror in the Conclusion. To this is added the Contestation betwixt Bacchus and Diana, and certain Sonnets of the Author to Aurora. Digested into three Poems. London: by F. L. for Laurence Blaiklock, 1651. First edition, first issue, 8vo (15.8 x 9cm), 18th-century calf, [16] 127 pp., type-ornament headpieces, woodcut initials, front board detached, title-page slightly marked and with two ownership inscriptions including ‘T Park’ (possibly Thomas Park, antiquary and bibliographer of poetry, 1758/9-1834), old marginal repairs to B1 and C8, B2 with lower fore corner restored with loss of text (several lines completed in manuscript, probably 18th century). Housed in a custom red cloth solander box [Wing B3799]
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Footnote
The author's only known work, published posthumously. The epistle dedicatory by ‘R. C.' describes the book as ‘the work of a young Gentleman of 19 years of age, who had he lived, might have been as well the Wonder as the Delight of the Arts’. It was later reissued with a cancel title-page dated 1653.
