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Joseph Beaumont : Psyche: or, Loves Mysterie; In XX Canto\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s: Displaying the Intercourse betwixt Christ and the Soule

George Boddington, c. 1648

Early 19th century full brown morocco boards with blind rules. Gilt title on spine with blind rules., Very good copy. Text is clean., Quarto (180 x 285mm). , Blank, Title Page, Dedication, Introduction, Canto P.1 – P. 400.

Ex. Libris Tileston Wells Esq. In verse. Two columns to the page.

Joseph Beaumont (1616 –1699) was an English clergyman, academic and poet. Psyche, taking him eleven months to write, was published early in 1648. The allegorical poem represents the soul led by divine grace and her guardian angel through the various temptations and assaults of life into her eternal felicity; it is written in a six-line heroic stanza, and contains, in its abridged form, 30,000 lines.


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