Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations [electronic resource] : 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 Isle 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.

Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations [electronic resource] : 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 Isle 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.

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

[14], 56, 59-184, [2]; [4], 16, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : port.

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In verse.

One of four possible imprint variants of this text.

With marginal notes.

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.

With a final errata leaf.

"Rockes improved", "Christian sea-card", "Christian paradise", and "Soules complaint" each have separate dated title page with "printed by T. Cotes for Michael Sparke, dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene Arbor, 1641; pagination and register are continuous.

"Comfortable cordials" has separate title page with imprint "Printed anno. 1641"; pagination and register are separate. It may also have been issued separately (Wing P3927).

Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C..

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2467:9).

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.) P4013C

Early English books online.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

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