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Author: More, Henry
Title: Philosophical Poems
Place Published: Cambridge
Publisher:Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the University
Date Published: 1647
Description:

[21], 436 pp. + errata page at rear. Title page vignette & floriated initials throughout. 15.5x10.5 cm (6x4"), period quarter calf with marbled boards.

Collected edition of More's Neoplatonic poetry, here reprinted with revisions together with several new works published here for the first time, each poem with its own separate title page. The work essentially consists of a reprint of More's "Platonick Song of the Soul", originally published in 1642, to which there is appended "An addition of some few smaller poems" here first published. This is a bibliographically complex work, which does not appear to have been fully described in bibliographic literature. Though two editions are said to have been published in 1647, the difference between them is not readily known. Henry More (1614-1687) was the leading light of the Cambridge Platonist school. Bookplate of Allen L. Thomas of the American Antiquarian Society on the front pastedown.

Boards worn, front cover detached, rear cover loose, spine strip mostly lost; title page not present, photocopy replacement laid in loose, age-toning to textblock, occasional foxing and letters cut off at edges of textblock; good and uncommon work deserving of repair.