1633 DU BARTAS HIS DIVINE WEEKS & WORKES antique FOLIO in ENGLISH

DU BARTAS
HIS DIVINE WEEKS and WORKES with a COMPLEATE COLLECTION of ALL the OTHER MOST DELIGHT-FUL WORKES

London: Printed by Robert Young; 1633

675 pp.

Bound in original full black morocco decorated in gilt, worn with some scuffing, marbled endpapers

Attractive elaborate architectural title

Guillaume Du Bartas wrote his auphuistic epic "Weekes" on the creation of the world and the history of man with delightful sketches of the garden of Eden and Judgement Day...
An attractive folding broadside on the trinity usually lacking is present in very good condition

Folio. Size 9 by 13 inches

Very good interior, minor wear and occasional spots

Text in English
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Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas (1544 – 1590) was a Gascon Huguenot courtier and poet.
Trained as a doctor of law, he served in the court of Henri of Navarre for most of his career.
Du Bartas was celebrated across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe for his divine poetry, particularly L'Uranie (1574), Judit (1574), La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde (1578), and La Seconde Semaine (1584-1603).
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