Lot n° 24
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SUCKLING (John). Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection... - Lot 24 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
SUCKLING (John). Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces written by Sir John Suckling. And published by a Friend to perpetuate his memory. Printed by his owne Copies. London, Humphrey Moseley, 1648, in-12, front, title page, (4)-119-82-64-(4)-52 p., full eggplant morocco, ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt fillet on the edges, small gilt lace inside, gilt edges (binding signed "CLUB BINDERY"). The Bindery Club was founded in 1898 by Edwin Holden, and a few other wealthy members of the Grolier Club of New York, to bring the art of fine bookbinding to America and to bind their most valuable books to the most refined standards of European bindings. Bookplate of R. Percy Alden : perhaps Sir Percy Alden (1865-1944) was a British social worker, land reformer and radical Liberal Party politician. Born in Oxford, he was the third son of Isaac Alden, a master butcher and Harriet née Kemp. After serving twice as a Member of Parliament, he was killed in June 1944 by a German V-1 flying bomb. Sir John Suckling (bap. 1609, d. 1641?), poet. "First known as a gallant and gamester, Suckling became famous also as a writer. He somehow found time to write much, and often well, in a range of genres... Suckling made his mark as a poet, playwright, and belletrist, but he was a writer mainly by avocation, and by second nature. He was first and last a wit and a courtier to Charles I, being occupied mainly as a gentleman officer, socio-political observer, gamester, amorist, and marital fortune seekerÑoften impetuously and not always successfully. Rough times ended his life prematurely: heir at eighteen and prodigal as soon, he died at thirty-two in Paris, penniless and probably a suicide; the Commons judged him a traitor to parliament, to royalists he was a martyr before the king. His works circulated widely in manuscript during his lifetime and, published posthumously by Humphrey Mosely, were bought in large numbers and read with eagerness and admiration during the interregnum and after. Editions of Fragmenta aurea, the best and most important collection, were published in 1646, 1648, and 1658... From 1638 he was back in the saddle again, for most of the rest of his life. Attached to the court, and to the King himself, with a romantic loyalty surprising in a sceptic' (Bruce, 311), he was one of the first to volunteer and 'raysed a Troop of 100 very handsome young proper men, whom he clad in white doubletts and scarlett breeches, and scarlett Coates, hatts, and feathers, well horsed, and armed. They say 'twas one of the finest sights in those days' (Brief Lives, 289), with the cost of men and equipment said to be £12,000 (Lloyd, 159) Ñanother ready target for lampooning, which came rapidly in 'Upon Sir John Suckling's Hundred Horse' ('I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King'), which also burlesqued Suckling's 'Ballade upon a Wedding'"[Oxford DNB].
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