Mount-Orgueil: . or Divine and profitable meditations, raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. rockes, 2. seas, 3. gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed.
William Prynne (1600-1669)
Category
Books
Date
1641
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3048968
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],184,[6],16 p., plate . 4to.. Identified in 1768 catalogue: B.7 [crossed through] in the closet [entered with Prynne's other works as 'Prynne's Histrio-Mastix, Registrum Brevium, & tracts. 14 vol.']. Imperfect: wanting initial leaf (probably a blank) and plate (unless plate has been counted as initial leaf?). Bound with: 'The substance of a speech made in the House of Commons' (London: 1649).. Provenance: Bookplate on front pastedown: Armorial, Grey and Booth quarterings impaling Cavendish-Bentinck: George Harry Grey, 5th earl of Stamford & 1st earl of Warrington (2nd cr.) (1737-1819).. Binding: Sprinkled, panelled calf; blind ruled, rolled and tooled; spine label missing: 'Prynne tracts'.
Makers and roles
William Prynne (1600-1669)