Coryats crudities
Subtitle: hastily gobled up in five moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands : newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling members of this kingdome ... : now distilled into English spirit through the Odcombian Limbecke; this precedeth the crudities; another also composed by the author of the former, in praise of travell of Germanie in particular, sublimed and brought over the helme in the stillitorie of the said travelling Thomas, this about the center or navell of the crudities : then in the posterne of them looke, and thou shalt find the posthume poems of the authors father ...
Contributors: Coryate, George, -1607; Kirchner, Hermann, 1562-1620; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637; Hole, William, -1624
Publisher: Printed by W. S[tansby, for the author]
Published: 1611
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 655
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Description and travel
Other titles: Three crvde veins are presented in this booke following
Notes: First part of title (Coryats crudities ... members of this kingdome) taken from engraved t.p.; second part (Three crude veines ... posthume poems of the authors father ...) and imprint taken from the printed t.p. immediately following.

"An explication of the emblemes of the frontispice" signed: Ben. Ionson.

Numerous errors in paging; numbers 399-402 omitted in paging.

Engraved title-page and folded plate depicting "a delineation of the ampitheater of Verona" by William Hole; head- and tail-pieces; initials.

STC (2nd ed.) 5808

Pforzheimer 218

Library copy imperfect: lacks all before the second title-page (Three crude veines ...). Bound in full sprinkled calf. Red gilt label on spine. Former owner's signature at top of second title-page (undeciphered). In an inscription on verso of second title-page dated 5 Feb. 1676 Geo. Plaxton records that he received the book as a gift from "Honest Jack Tayler", whose funeral sermon he preached on 14 Jan. 1686.