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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coryate, Thomas, approximately 1577-1617, author, publisher.

Contributor:

Coryate, George, -1607, contributor.

Kirchner, Hermann, 1562-1620, contributor.

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, contributor.

Hole, William, -1624, engraver.

Stansby, William, active 1597-1638, printer.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Europe.

Travel.

Genre:

Early works

Physical Description:

[198], 364, [23], 366-393, [23], 395-398, 403-655 [51] pages, [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, music, portrait ; 23 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Letterpress title: Three crude veines are presented in this booke following (besides the foresaid Crudities) no less flowing in the body of the booke, then the crudities themselues, two of rhetoricke and one of poesie : a most elegant oration, first written in the Latine tongue by Hermannus Kirchnerus ... in praise of trauell in generall : now distilled into English spirit through the Odcombian Limbecke ... : another also composed by the author of the former, in praise of trauell of Germanie in particular, sublimed and brought ouer the helme in the stillitorie of the said trauelling Thomas ... : then in the postern of them looke, and thou shalt finde the posthume poems of the authors father, comming as neere kinsemen to the worke, being the next of blood to the booke, and yonger brothers to the author himselfe

Place of Publication:

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

Notes:

Title from engraved title leaf; imprint from letterpress title leaf. Printer's and publisher's names from STC.

Signatures: pi1 a⁸(a3+[superscript chi]b⁴,chi1) b-g⁸ h-l⁴ B-C⁸ D⁸(D1+[superscript chi]D1,[superscript chi]D2.3) E-3C⁸ 3D⁴ 3E⁴(-3E1,3E2).

Leaf pi1=leaf [3E]1; leaf chi1=leaf [3E]2. See Pforzheimer.

Leaf a3r without rule between verses D and E. A variant: leaf a3 is a cancel with rule between verses D and E on recto.

Leaf 3A4r, line 12 begins: Baron the Lord Lisle. A variant: leaf 3A4 is a cancel on which line 12 of the recto begins: and illustrious Robert Sidney Viscount Lisle.

ESTC gives signature statement: 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.

Numerous errors in pagination.

Engraved plates (title leaf, signed "Gulielmus Hole sculp", and four illustrations, some folded); engraved portrait and illustration.

Woodcut title ornament, illustration, music, initials, factotum, head- and tail-pieces.

Letterpress title within ruled borders; text and printed marginalia within ruled borders.

"An explication of the emblemes of the frontispice" signed: Ben. Ionson.

"Posthuma fragmenta poematum Georgii Coryati" has special dated title leaf (leaf 3A6r) which reads: Posthuma fragmenta poematum Georgii Coryati Sarisburiensis, sacrae theologiae baccalaurei, quondam e focijs Noui Collegij in inclyta Academia Oxoniensi, ac postea ecclesiae Odcombiensis in agro Somersetensi ministri, vbi tandem anno 1606. extremum vitae diem clausit. Londini, anno Domini 1611.

Errata on leaf 3E4r.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Furness copy: leaf a3r without rule between verses D and E; leaf 3A4 is a cancel on which line 12 of the recto begins: and illustrious Robert Sidney Viscount Lisle.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Furness copy has 1 early manuscript leaf (transcription of Thomas Fuller's account of author and book in History of the worthies of England) bound in at beginning of volume; early manuscript note ("Drownd: in the straights") at foot of letterpress title leaf.

Furness copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Sophia Rare Books.

Furness copy: binding: "Modern red morocco gilt, all edges gilt. Custom box."--Bookseller's description.

Furness copy: leaves closely cropped at all margins with minor loss of illustration on engraved title leaf and occasional damaged to ruled border at head of letterpress leaves.

Cited in:

ESTC S108716

STC (2nd ed.) 5808

Pforzheimer 218

OCLC:

145867056