CAREW, Thomas (ca 1594 - ca 1639). Poems. By Thomas Carew Esquire. One of the Gentlemen of the Privie-Chamber, a Sewer in Ordinary to His Majesty [With: Coelum Brittanicum. A masque at White-Hall in the Banquetting house ]. London: I[ohn] D[awson] for Thomas Walkley, 1640. 8 o (145 x 90 mm). General title-page, section title on O8r for the masque Coelum Brittanicum . (Some page numbers, signatures and catchwords slightly cropped, paper defect at fore-margin of f7 neatly patched, paper flaw at O2 just touching letters, tiny repairs to upper margins of S1-4.) Modern morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance : JOHN DRINKWATER (1882-1937), poet and dramatist (gilt morocco bookplate, ink signature dated 1920, lengthy pencilled note on preliminary blank) -- Templeton Crocker (small booklabel) -- pencilled Quaritch collation note on back pastedown -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 30 December 1960. Exhibited : Grolier Club, ' This powerfull rime ,' 1975, no. 13. FIRST EDITION, the list of errata [A2r] in second state (seven lines rather than six) as noted in Pforzheimer, leaf G7 (pp.93-94) present in both settings: the uncancelled leaf (omitting the fourth line of "Epitaph on the Lady S. Wife to Sir W.S.") and the cancellandum (omitted line added, with other small changes in spelling and punctuation) bound at the end of the volume. The posthumous first collection of the poetry of Carew, including the well-known "A Rapture," evocative of Marvell and Donne. Carew, courtier and wit at the court of Charles I, befriended Ben Jonson, Lord Edward Herbert, George Sandys, James Howell, Sir John Suckling and William Davenant, to many of whom he addressed verses. These include one to Ben Jonson at pp.108-110, an "Elegie upon the death of Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls" at pp.121-125, and verses in praise of William Davenant and his play The Just Italian at pp.162-163. Carew's own masque Coelum Brittanicum , performed in February 1633/34, was embellished by elaborate stage designs by Inigo Jones (1573-1652) and featured musical settings by Henry Lawes (1596-1662) as we are informed on the last page: "the Songs and Dialogues...were set with apt Tunes to them, by Mr. Henry Lawes, one of His Majesties Musicians." The collection was slightly enlarged in editions of 1642, 1651 and 1671 but the 1640 first edition is extremely rare, no copy having been offered at auction since at least 1975. Grolier Wither to Prior 141; Hayward 76; Pforzheimer 126; STC 4620.
CAREW, Thomas (ca 1594 - ca 1639). Poems. By Thomas Carew Esquire. One of the Gentlemen of the Privie-Chamber, a Sewer in Ordinary to His Majesty [With: Coelum Brittanicum. A masque at White-Hall in the Banquetting house ]. London: I[ohn] D[awson] for Thomas Walkley, 1640. 8 o (145 x 90 mm). General title-page, section title on O8r for the masque Coelum Brittanicum . (Some page numbers, signatures and catchwords slightly cropped, paper defect at fore-margin of f7 neatly patched, paper flaw at O2 just touching letters, tiny repairs to upper margins of S1-4.) Modern morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance : JOHN DRINKWATER (1882-1937), poet and dramatist (gilt morocco bookplate, ink signature dated 1920, lengthy pencilled note on preliminary blank) -- Templeton Crocker (small booklabel) -- pencilled Quaritch collation note on back pastedown -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, 30 December 1960. Exhibited : Grolier Club, ' This powerfull rime ,' 1975, no. 13. FIRST EDITION, the list of errata [A2r] in second state (seven lines rather than six) as noted in Pforzheimer, leaf G7 (pp.93-94) present in both settings: the uncancelled leaf (omitting the fourth line of "Epitaph on the Lady S. Wife to Sir W.S.") and the cancellandum (omitted line added, with other small changes in spelling and punctuation) bound at the end of the volume. The posthumous first collection of the poetry of Carew, including the well-known "A Rapture," evocative of Marvell and Donne. Carew, courtier and wit at the court of Charles I, befriended Ben Jonson, Lord Edward Herbert, George Sandys, James Howell, Sir John Suckling and William Davenant, to many of whom he addressed verses. These include one to Ben Jonson at pp.108-110, an "Elegie upon the death of Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls" at pp.121-125, and verses in praise of William Davenant and his play The Just Italian at pp.162-163. Carew's own masque Coelum Brittanicum , performed in February 1633/34, was embellished by elaborate stage designs by Inigo Jones (1573-1652) and featured musical settings by Henry Lawes (1596-1662) as we are informed on the last page: "the Songs and Dialogues...were set with apt Tunes to them, by Mr. Henry Lawes, one of His Majesties Musicians." The collection was slightly enlarged in editions of 1642, 1651 and 1671 but the 1640 first edition is extremely rare, no copy having been offered at auction since at least 1975. Grolier Wither to Prior 141; Hayward 76; Pforzheimer 126; STC 4620.
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