Argenis. Editio novissima…
BARCLAY, John. Argenis. Editio novissima…
Amsterdam: Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1655
12mo. (129 x 75 mm.). Engraved title, woodcut head- and tail- pieces. First ten quires slightly buckled forward from spine but solid in binding, occasional early underlinings in green pencil. Contemporary vellum over paper boards, a little bumped and scuffed but overall very good and clean. A very good and tall copy.
Argenis, along with More's Utopia, is one of the most influential Neo-Latin novels. A historical allegory on the wars in France under Henri III and Henri IV, Barclay's position is Royalist and against the aristocracy. He does, however, also discuss more contemporary English events, including the scandal surrounding Sir Thomas Overbury.
Barclay was Catholic, educated in France by the Jesuits; Argenis, his major novel, was written in Rome, where he had gone at the prospect of his children having to be raised Protestant in England. The first Elzevier edition of the Argenis was in 1627.
W 1180; B 1142; R 1200; Copinger 208.
BARCLAY, John. Argenis. Editio novissima…
Amsterdam: Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1655
12mo. (129 x 75 mm.). Engraved title, woodcut head- and tail- pieces. First ten quires slightly buckled forward from spine but solid in binding, occasional early underlinings in green pencil. Contemporary vellum over paper boards, a little bumped and scuffed but overall very good and clean. A very good and tall copy.
Argenis, along with More's Utopia, is one of the most influential Neo-Latin novels. A historical allegory on the wars in France under Henri III and Henri IV, Barclay's position is Royalist and against the aristocracy. He does, however, also discuss more contemporary English events, including the scandal surrounding Sir Thomas Overbury.
Barclay was Catholic, educated in France by the Jesuits; Argenis, his major novel, was written in Rome, where he had gone at the prospect of his children having to be raised Protestant in England. The first Elzevier edition of the Argenis was in 1627.
W 1180; B 1142; R 1200; Copinger 208.
BARCLAY, John. Argenis. Editio novissima…
Amsterdam: Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1655
12mo. (129 x 75 mm.). Engraved title, woodcut head- and tail- pieces. First ten quires slightly buckled forward from spine but solid in binding, occasional early underlinings in green pencil. Contemporary vellum over paper boards, a little bumped and scuffed but overall very good and clean. A very good and tall copy.
Argenis, along with More's Utopia, is one of the most influential Neo-Latin novels. A historical allegory on the wars in France under Henri III and Henri IV, Barclay's position is Royalist and against the aristocracy. He does, however, also discuss more contemporary English events, including the scandal surrounding Sir Thomas Overbury.
Barclay was Catholic, educated in France by the Jesuits; Argenis, his major novel, was written in Rome, where he had gone at the prospect of his children having to be raised Protestant in England. The first Elzevier edition of the Argenis was in 1627.
W 1180; B 1142; R 1200; Copinger 208.