[Rarebooks] OFFER: FELLTHAM'S RESOLVES 1628-29.

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FELLTHAM, OWEN: RESOLVES, A DUPLE CENTURY, YE 3D EDITION. London, Imprinted 
for Henry Seile, 1628-1629. [4], 448, [21] p. 19 cm. Signatures: A4 B-2F8 
2G-2H4 2I4(-2I4) Engraved t.p./ "Resolves: divine, morall, politicall. By 
Ovv. Felltham. The second centurie. At London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 
for Henry Seile, at the Tygers Head, in S. Pauls church-yard, 1626". 
Feltham's moral essays, orginally written when he was 18, and reprinted 
many times in the century, through the 1660s, was meant as a guide to good, 
godly and honorable life."The striking images (some borrowed by the poet 
Henry Vaughan) are held to be more original than the ideas." Encyc. Brit. 
11th Ed. Many sentences of his, first published here, have entered the 
realm of proverbial usage in English. Here are a few examples:  "There is 
no one subsists by himself alone;" "Zeal without humanity is like a ship 
without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment;" "Negligence is the 
rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves;"  "In 
business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time;" "All 
earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; all 
spiritual pleasures, more in fruition than in expectation;" "The best 
things corrupted become the worst;"  "Perfection is immutable. But for 
things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them."   The early editions 
are quite scarce.  CBEL I, 725; STC(2nd ed.), Lowndes 706;  10758, OCLC 
finds 10 Locs. in the USA, [AZU, CGU, UIU, HHG, WTU, OSU, VA@, VTS, 
GZN,YUS]. At Copac, copies are only at the Natl. Lib.of Scotland and at 
Birmingham. Madan 264 is the 1661 edition, which has a Shakespearean 
addition.The last leaf  before the index contains "Deo authoris votum." The 
title page is engraved. In this and subsequent editions the former second 
part is printed first. With a new front free EP, and portions of the 
backstrip  renewed. Otherwise a Very Good copy. $850.00

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