Author: REYNOLDS (Edward):
Title: A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soule of Man. With the severall Dignities and Corruptions thereunto belonging.
Description: London, Printed by R. H. Robert Bostock..., 1640. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, pp. 190 x 142 mms., pp. [xx], 1 - 192 (with p. 112 misnumbered 1112 and 118, 811), 191 - 222, 221 - 285, 206 - 207 [for 286 - 287], 288 - 289, 210 - 211 [for 290 - 291], 292 - 313, 315, 314, 316 - 323, 322, 324 -325, 306 - 307, 328 - 329, 311, 310, 332 , 313, 314 - 324, 391 - 466, 483 - 484, 481 - 482, 487, 487, 485 - 486, 489 - 553 [554 blank], later 18th century calf; lacks errata leaf, spine defective and covers holding on for dear life. With the bookplate of the literary editor and bibliographer Temple Scott on the front paste-down end-paper and underneath the small book label of Payson G. Gates. Temple Scott's autograph and date (1899) appear on the recto of the front free end-paper, just below an indecipherable autograph dated 1728. Reynolds (1599 - 1676) was Bishop of Norwich, but he is described on the title-page here as "Rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire." His interest here is in the passions and appetites as they affect personality and mental welfare. STC 20938; Hunter & Macalpine, p. 119. Despite the curious pagination, the book is complete and has been checked against the copy in the BL. The most conspicuous difficulty occurs in gathering 3L, which is misfolded; just to make matters more interesting, there is also a singleton signed 3L. The BL copy has a singleton 3L and the gathering 3L folded in the correct order.

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