Otherwise, the pages are generally bright and clean throughout. With With a minor foxing to the edges, affecting only he first and last few leaves. Internally, the binding is firm with only the title page and p. This volume was among the books of Bishop Francis Paget' dated 1912.
With a paper cutting pasted to the front pastedown, inscribed by a previous owner H B Dean, dated 1882, and by another hand stating 'The above inscription is in the hand writing of Dean Church. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear only. - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night For thou must die. Ferrar published them in this volume, with an introduction.?From the library of Bishop Francis Paget, English?theologian, author and the 33rd?Bishop of Oxford, as noted on the front pastedown 'This volume was among the books of Bishop Francis Paget.'? In a quarter vellum binding over paper covered boards. He wrote in English, Latin and Greek.?He sent his poems to his friend Nicholas Ferrar in 1633 shortly before his death, asking if he thought they could "turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul", otherwise to burn them.
With an introductory essay by J Henry Shorthouse.?George Herbert was a poet, orator, and priest of the?Church of England, considered one of the foremost British devotional lyricists.
A facsimile edition of the third edition of The Temple by George Herbert, the first edition was published in 1633. A facsimile reprint of the third edition of this seventeenth century collection of poems by George Herbert, from the library of Francis Paget.
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