STC 5808 copy 3 RESTRICTED. Review required (typical turnaround time 1 to 2 weeks). Awaiting conservation. Available by special permission only.

Coryats crudities ; hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia co[m]monly called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling members of this kingdome.

[London] : [printed by VV[illiam] S[tansby for the author], anno Domini 1611]

[196], 364, [23], 366-393, [23], 395-398, 403-655, [51] p., [5] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., port. ; (4to)

The title page is engraved; it and three of the other plates or illustrations are signed by William Hole.
Imprint from leaf following engraved title page, which reads: Three crude veines are presented in this booke following ... a most elegant oration, first written in the Latine tongue by Hermannus Kirchnerus ... Another also composed by the author of the former, in praise of trauell of Germanie ... Then ... the posthume poems of the authors father ...
Printer's and publisher's names from STC.
Signatures: pi1 ²pi1 a-b⁸ ²b⁴ c-g⁸ h-l⁴ B-C⁸ D⁸(D1 + [chi]3 signed: D1, D2, unsigned) E-3C⁸ 3D⁴ [3E]¹ (signed Eee3), [3F]¹
"Posthuma fragmenta poematum Georgii Coryati" has separate dated title page; register is continuous.
Includes index.
With a final note apologizing for the errata, followed by an errata leaf.

Copy 1 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1986-1987. Time, the greatest innovator (catalog p. 82)
Copy 1 Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004. Voices for Tolerance in an Age of Persecution. Opening: S4v-S5r (catalog entry 36)

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 5808
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 218
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S108716

Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 5808 copy 1
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 5808 copy 2

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 5808 copy 1

Engraved title page has top margin repaired, with some text in facsimile. Brown goatskin binding, with gilt-tooled doublure; signed by C. Lewis. Bound in is former vellum binding with gilt fillet border and panel with thistles at angles and badge of the Prince of Wales in center of covers. Provenance: possibly owned by someone connected to the household of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales; armorial bookplates of Sir Henry Hope Edwardes; and Sir Thomas Brooke, Armitage Bridge; collated by Talbot at Quaritch, 31.3.22; Harmsworth copy.

HH60/11

STC 5808 copy 2

Gathering ²b⁴ bound after a3. Engr. t.p. has extended margins [? inlaid]. Vellum binding, with rules and ornaments on covers in gilt; with visible holes for ties. Provenance: bookplate of Marshall C. Lefferts. Curatorial file available.

cs78

STC 5808 copy 3

Imperfect: wanting engraved t.p. and leaves P2, 2G1, 2P1-2Q8; gathering ²b⁴ bound after a3. Manuscript notes, including biographical note about author on ²pi1v; manuscript poem on front fly-leaf, with portrait of Coryate pasted beneath. Brown panelled calf binding is broken at the spine, resulting in detached leaves and gatherings in first section of book. Provenance: bookplate of David Garrick; bought by Folger from Pickering & Chatto, December 1927. Curatorial file available.

cs1762

W.b.137 pages 14 and 130

Imperfect: fragments of leaves T5 and ²b1. Pasted on pages 14 and 130 of a Halliwell-Phillipps scrapbook which has printed t.p.: 'Literary Scraps: cuttings from newspapers, extracts, miscellanea, etc.'; with imprint 'London: John Camden Hotten...'. Manuscript notes: notes identify fragments as 'Coryat's Crudities, 1611.'; also notes on page 130: 'Motions' and 'T.G.V.'; pencilled note on front paste-down: 'This Vol. is completely indexed. There is no vacant space'. Red half-calf binding, lettered in gilt on spine: 'Literary Scraps. Cuttings. Extracts. Actresses. J. C. Hotten.' Provenance: part of J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps collection; bought by Folger circa 1907 from Marsden J. Perry.