The temple
Subtitle: sacred poems and private ejaculations
By: by George Herbert.
Contributors: Fox, Augustus, fl. 1828-1874.; Harvey, Christopher, 1597-1663.; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.; Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876 (printer)
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Pickering
Published: 1838
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Other titles: Works of George Herbert :; George Herbert's poems
Notes: Preliminary steel-engraved portrait plate of George Herbert with imprints: "Aug. Fox sc." and "London, Published, 1835".

Plate is the same as that used in an 1835 edition of this title published by Pickering.  See McLean D 0499.

T.p. printed in red and black within wood-engraved decorative border.

"Another volume similar to the present, entitled Remains, contains the Priest to the Temple, Proverbs, Letters, and other prose writings of Herbert, with his life by Walton and that by Barnabas Oley; and the two volumes together comprise the entire works of George Herbert now first collected."--Preface to the Second Edition of the Poems.

Includes "The synagogue or The shadow of the temple sacred poems and private ejaculations in imitation of Mr. George Herbert [by Christopher Harvey M. A.]": p. [1-7], 276-354.  With separate t.p. printed in red and black.

Includes "Notes on The temple and synagogue by S. T. Coleridge.": p. [355]-361.

MASS copy 1: Bound in brown morocco tooled in gold and blind; a.e.g.  Board turn-ins tooled in gold.  With marbled endpapers.  Bound as a two volume set with McLean D 0500.

MASS copy 2: Bound in blue morocco-grain cloth with printed paper title label on spine.  Title label with imprint: "Pickering  1838  Five Shillings".  With ownership inscription dated 1842: "H. Porteus Oakes".

MASS copy 3: Bound in blue morocco-grain cloth with printed paper title label on spine.  Title label with imprint: "Pickering  1838  Five Shillings".  With [8] pages of publisher's advertisements bound before upper free endpaper.  With ownership inscription: "P. T. Mount".  Lacking preliminary portrait plate.