Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations, raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isl of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed.

People / Organizations

• William Prynne (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Senior, and are to be sold by Peter Inch of Chester, 1641.

Publication year

1641-1641

ESTC No.

R231891

Grub Street ID

103815

Description

[16], 56, 59-184, [6], 16 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 4⁰

Note

In verse.

One of four possible imprint variants of this text.

Order and number of preliminary leaves vary. Ideal copies include a 4-line verse (printed in 7 lines) which faces a portrait of the author. These two leaves may either precede or follow title page. There are two verse dedications, "To the Christian reader", which fill both sides of a leaf, and "To the Right Worshipfull his ever honoured worthy friend ..." on a leaf signed [par.]3, the verso of which is blank. These two dedication leaves are frequently interchanged.

Title page is a cancel.