Joost van den Vondel - Poezy of verscheide gedichten - 1682

Joost van den Vondel - Poem(s) of various poems, newly collected and with many previously unpublished poems added: together with an introduction to the Dutch art of poetry and the life of the Poet - Franeker, Leonard Strik, 1682 - 2 volumes - blind-stamped parchment bindings - (24) 791; 695 (1); 89 (1) (7) 40 pp

Reasonably good. Bindings somewhat soiled. Interior pages yellowed, here and there a spot. Some dog-ears.
Volume 1: name written on flyleaf, inner hinge slightly open - the book block fixed in the binding. Loss at the bottom corner of the portrait, title page and the following three leaves, lower half of the outer margin of the first 8 leaves (slightly) frayed as well as of the last 8 leaves (see photos), loss at the top corner of leaf 765/766. Leaves 211/212 and 213/214 are loosening at the bottom. Moisture spot at the bottom corner of all pages and also in the top corner and/or side margin around page 640, back cover detached.
Volume 2: covers and endpapers worn along the edges. Inner hinges slightly open - the book block fixed in the binding. Bottom corners (slightly) of the first 7 and last 7 leaves damaged, as well as the outer bottom corners of the first 7 and last 5 leaves; lower half of the outer margin of the last 20 leaves mildly frayed. Leaves 411/412 and 413/414 loose, outer margin of the first 20 leaves mildly frayed. Moisture spot at the bottom corner from the beginning to about page 60 and from about page 220 to the end, with some also in the gutter, and in the top corner of the last 30 leaves.

After page 695 in the second part follows J. V. Vondel’s life, after which the Lijkdichten (epitaphs) on the death of the renowned poet Joost Van Den Vondel by J. Vollenhove.

Contains a portrait of the author

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