DUNCAN, ROBERT; TARN, NATHANIEL; JORIS, PIERRE; ANTIN, DAVID; NELSON, SHARON H.; HOROVITZ, MICHAEL; ET AL.

Poetry Review. Volume 63 Number 3 Autumn 1972. (Editor, Eric Mottram).

(London: The Poetry Society, 1972). - Octavo, softcover bound in decorative black-and-white wrappers. There is light staining to the wraps along the spine with additional staining to the top edge of the rear wrap & soiling to its upper half. The spine is darkened. Title & pages 194-[288]. There are a few small stains to the fore-edge with tiny stains to the top corners of several pages. Good.

-- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Book number: 17027

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature; Periodical; Poetry Review; British; Poems; Poets; Literary Review; Small Magazine; Robert Duncan; Nathaniel Tarn; Pierre Joris; Sharon H. Nelson; Michael Horovitz; David Antin; Eric Mottram.

JORIS, DAVID

Een Geestelijck Liedt-Boecxken (Mennonite Songbooks - Dutch Series 1).

With musical scores. Amsterdam [etc.]: Knuf [etc.], [1971] (reprint of the edition published circa 1590). Hardback with dustjacket, 195 p.

-- Antiquariaat Den Hertog

Book number: 14152

Catalogue: Mennonitica

JORIS, DAVID (C.1501-1556)

t'Wonder-boeck: waer in dat van der werldt aen versloten gheopenbaert is. Wie een der ick (segt de Heere) senden sal, ontfangt in mynen naem, die ontfanght my: wie my ontfanght, ontfanght den die my ghesonden heeft. Hoochghelovet moet hy sijn, die als een ambassatoer ghesonden komt, inden name des Heeren. Opt nieuw ghecorrigeert unde vermeerdert by den autheur selve: int jaer 1551.

[Rotterdam, Dirck Mullem c.1595.]4 parts in 1 volume. Folio. [X],125,[2,1 blank]; [VI],164,[2]; [IV],50,[1,1 blank]; [II],34,[1] lvs. With 3 full-page engravings, 2 signed 'IRW' (Hieronymus Wierix), a large woodcut in the first part, 3 large woodcuts in the fourth part, a few smaller woodcuts, and numerous woodcut initials. Scattered old annotations and striping, annotations to first and last blanks. Mostly marginal staining, particularly in the upper inner corner in the first and last part. Printed in double columns. Part 2, lvs 33-36 bound after 39; lvs 91-93 after 94. Contemp. calf over wooden boards, minor imperfections, richly blind tooled, once rebacked and recased, brass corners to both boards (1 gone), remnants of clasps, and center piece to front board (gone from back board). Third edition, a literal reprint of the much enlarged second edition published in 1584 in Vianen by the same printer. Both the second and the third edition were published without name of place or printer and were dated 1551, no doubt because of its hazardous contents. First published in 1542-44 in Deventer by Dirk van Borne. The Book of miracles is the chief book of David Joris, a glasspainter by trade and the most important leader of Dutch anabaptism in the 1530's after the debacle of Munster. He strongly rejected violence and consistently advocated a peaceful approach, but he also represented a dangerous mysticism which could, and indeed did among some of his many followers, result in libertinism. Joris book provoked a heated dispute with Menno Simons, who considered him a false prophet, 'deceiver and falsifier of the divine truth' in stead of holding to the Scriptures. Joris also defended unrestricted religious liberty and during his stay in Basel stood up for the pitiable Michael Servetus. Not surprisingly he was a long-life fugitive, and though he was buried with full honors in Basel his corpse and his books were publicly burned three years afterwards.
¶ Van der Linde 58. TB 5644.

-- Antiquariaat Matthys de Jongh (Ilab/Lila)

Book number: 35734