Author: PERS, D.P. [Dirck PIETERSZ].- TER DOES.- SUYP-STADT.-
Title: Bacchus Wonder - wercken: Waer in Het Recht Gebruyck en Misbruyck des Wijns / door verscheyden vermaecklijcke / eerlijcke en leerlijcke historien wort afgebeeld / en de lasteringe der Dronckenschap met levende verwen afgemaelt. Hier is by-gevoegt de Suyp - stadt, of Dronckerts Leven: waer in alle hare gebouwen, manieren, aert, wetten & c. en alles wat by den Dronckaerts gebeurt, boertlijcker wyse word af-geschildert. Alles tot uyt-wiedinge vande quade in-gewortelde on-aerdigheden en zeden der Dronckerts, ... Foll. by 2) IDEM [from N4 recto] SUYP-STAD, of Dronckaerts Leven: waer in haere Stadt / ghebouwen / aert/ heerschappye/ wetten en gelegenheyd / boertscher wyse/ word af-gebeeld/ en tot yeders op-merckinghe in Dicht vertoont. Bound Before: JACOB TER DOES, J., 's - Graven - Hage, met de voornaemste plaetsen en vermaecklykheden.
Description: Amstelredam, Voor DirckPietersz: Boeck-Verkooper op 't Water inde witte Persse/ recht over de Koren-Merckt [Folio S2 verso: te Amstelredam, Gedruckt by Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn. Anno 1628.], 1628. [The incomplete text of Ter Does: The Hague, 1668]. 4to. 3 parts in 1 vol. W. large engr. alleg. vignette [Bacchus on his wine barrel, surrounded by fauns distributing wine to farmers, soldiers etc] on title 'Ick strii op sno eerde' [Anagram 'Dirick Pieterssoon'] & 4 engr. textills. [pp. 19, 69, 77, 133, C2, I3, K3, R3 resp.]. Very good contemp. full vellum, title in contemp. ink on spine. (Upper cover top righthand corner a stamp 'F.W.Craandijk'). [(:4, A - R4, S2]. (VIII, 140 pp.). (Upper blank margin cut a bit short by the binder, sometimes cutting sl. into the running title.). (Upper paste down a paper ticket 'Ex Libris L.S. van Praag'). (Overall some light browning; First 5 lvs. (Title plus (:2-4), A1) and last 10 lvs. (from Q1 to end) a visible waterspot, covering the page; in the rest of the text this watersp. is present but quite unobtrusive; textengr. 4 w. a brown (ink?) spot; lefthand blank margin throughout some small puncture marks.). (The Ter Does bound before w. XVI [of XVIII, pr. title missing], 143, I ('Nota folio 108') pp.). (No plates and map in the Ter Does). The ter Does is the first publication in this vellum binding, but is without its printed title and plates. Text is, however complete. This description of the Hague is quite unimportant next to what is really important in this 4to binding: the FIRST AND ONLY edition of 'Bacchus Wonder - wercken, 1628 and Suyp-Stadt of which only a small number of copies are available in Dutch libraries. See: Oberlé, Les Fastes de Bachus', item 1033, p. 568 & 570 (w. 2 textills. depicted on pp. 570): 'Edition originale de ce beau livre qui chante, ... les traveaux merveilleux de Bacchus, les fastes et les dangers de l'ivrognerie. Sous le pseudonym de D.P.Pers se cache le libraire D. PIETERSZ qui exerçait à Amsterdam entre 1620 et 1650. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs receuils de vers dont le célèbre Bellephoron... Le volume, imprimé à Amsterdam par Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn, est orné de 5 très belles compositions en taille douce. Celle du titre représente Bacchus sur son tonneau, entouré de faunes qui distribuent du vin ...': Scheurleer, 153: Scheepers, (Beijers, 1947), 144: Frederiks & Van den Branden, p. 604 - 605: Born in Emden 1581, joined the bookseller's guild in Amsterdam where he conducted his business 'op 't Water' in 'Die Witte Parsse'[the white press], where the family name comes from. In the Guild records he is entered under D under the name 'Dirck Pieters Wittepers'. Pers died 1662: Cat. bibl. ned. mij. van letterkunde vol. i, p. 323: Te Winkel, vol. I, pp. 500 - 502, vol. V, p. 83: 'Zijn "Bacchus Wonder-wercken" (van 1628) is een uitvoerig ... over het algemeen niet onaardig hekeldicht tegen het drankmisbruik, met goede plaatjes opgesierd en doorvlochten van vermakelijke anecdoten en geschiedenissen. Als aanhangsel op dit gedicht gaf Pers nog eene satirieke beschrijving van "Suyp-stad of Dronckerts Leven", die m.i. nog niet genoegzaame waardering heeft gevonden en waarin o.a. ook een schimpscheut op Bredero's "Haerlemsche drooge harten" voorkomt.': The 4 engraved textills. meas. appr. 10.5 x 15 cm depict (1) an allegorically presented banquet of animals. (in which the sort of animal mirrors the type of drunkenness). (2) a banquet of men and women smoking, drinking and vomitting in true Breughelian style. (3) men drinking heavily and practising the bow and arrow, a frightened (servant?) figure against the doorway to the back left of the engraving, obviously in anxious anticipation of things to come. I guess he hopes for 'a steady hand'. (4) depicting a gigantic wine barrel, surrounded by a crowd of men brandishing cups, mugs and carafes in eager anticipation. In the background Bacchus is driven around in his open carriage, with his entourage.: Verlaan & Grootes, Suyp-Stad of Dronkaerts Leven. Tekstuitgave met inleiding (Culemborg, 1978), i.l.c.: Ledeboer, Boekdrukkers (1872), p. 70: Kleerkoper / Van Stockum, p. 257: Briels, Zuidnederlandse boekdrukkers, p. 417 - 418 (Van Ravesteyn; Bacchus Wonder - werck not mentioned): On the general motif of 'triumphant processions', see Veldman, Leerrijke Reeksen (1986), ch 4/5 (the publication deals specifically with van Heemskerk).: See also the exhibition cat. Amsterdam Rijksmuseum 'Spiegel van Alle Dag'. Good copy of this rare first and only edition warning us not to be over indulgent with licquor.

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