Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations, raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. rockes, 2. seas, 3. gardens, digested into three distinct poems. : To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersey. /
Prynne, William,1600-1669.
London, : Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke senior, dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene Arbor,
1641..
All parts have separate title pages. Comfortable cordialls is paginated separately.
In verse.
One of four possible imprint variants of this text..
With marginal notes.
Order and number of preliminary leaves vary. Ideal copies include a 4-line verse (printed in 7 lines) which accompanies a portrait of the author. These two leaves may either precede or follow title page. There are two verse dedications, "To the Christian reader", which fills both sides of a leaf, and "To the Right Worshipfull his ever honoured worthy friend ..." on a leaf signed [par.] 3, the verso of which is blank. These two dedication leaves are frequently interchanged.
With an errata on A4v. In one of the other issues, errata in the same setting are on a final leaf.
The verses in Comfortable cordialls are in Latin with English translations.
Leaf [Aa4] is blank.
Rockes improved, A Christian sea-card, A Christian paradise and The Soules Complaint each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
ESTC
Wing (2nd ed.)
Christian literature
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1998.