ROSICRUCIANISM -- PHILALETHES, Eugenius (pseudonym) [Thomas VAUGHAN (1622-66)]. The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R. C. commonly, of the Rosie Cross , London: for J. M. by Giles Calvert 1652. 8° (145 x 90mm.), woodcut intials and head-pieces (a few spots, worming hole from b4-E8), rebacked contemporary calf, green morocco lettering piece (extremities rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance : H.R.H. The Duke of Sussex, Grandmaster. 6th son of George III (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the first and second Rosicrucian manifestos. The Fama had first appeared in print in 1614, but had circulated in manuscript for several years previously, so that, curiously, the publication of Adam Haselmeyer's encouraging Reply pre-dated it by two years. Similarly, an English translation of the manifestos circulated in Britain before Thomas Vaughan published it in 1652. The translation, once thought to be the work of Vaughan, may derive from an earlier translation into Scots dialect (and it may in turn derive from an unstudied earlier manuscript in the British Library, cf. A. Mclean 'The Impact of the Rosicrucian Manifestos in Britian', Das Erbe des Christian Rosenkreuz , Amsterdam: 1988, p. 170-179). Yates considered the publication of the Fame and Confession "an epoch-making event" ( Rosicrucian Enlightenment , p. 185). The combination of Hermetic philosophy, magic, alchemy, mysticism and allegory embodied in the work found fertile ground in England, particularly in meetings held first at London and then at Oxford, among those members were Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren which led to the foundation of the Royal Society. Wing F340A.
ROSICRUCIANISM -- PHILALETHES, Eugenius (pseudonym) [Thomas VAUGHAN (1622-66)]. The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of R. C. commonly, of the Rosie Cross , London: for J. M. by Giles Calvert 1652. 8° (145 x 90mm.), woodcut intials and head-pieces (a few spots, worming hole from b4-E8), rebacked contemporary calf, green morocco lettering piece (extremities rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance : H.R.H. The Duke of Sussex, Grandmaster. 6th son of George III (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the first and second Rosicrucian manifestos. The Fama had first appeared in print in 1614, but had circulated in manuscript for several years previously, so that, curiously, the publication of Adam Haselmeyer's encouraging Reply pre-dated it by two years. Similarly, an English translation of the manifestos circulated in Britain before Thomas Vaughan published it in 1652. The translation, once thought to be the work of Vaughan, may derive from an earlier translation into Scots dialect (and it may in turn derive from an unstudied earlier manuscript in the British Library, cf. A. Mclean 'The Impact of the Rosicrucian Manifestos in Britian', Das Erbe des Christian Rosenkreuz , Amsterdam: 1988, p. 170-179). Yates considered the publication of the Fame and Confession "an epoch-making event" ( Rosicrucian Enlightenment , p. 185). The combination of Hermetic philosophy, magic, alchemy, mysticism and allegory embodied in the work found fertile ground in England, particularly in meetings held first at London and then at Oxford, among those members were Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren which led to the foundation of the Royal Society. Wing F340A.
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