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All the Workes of Iohn Taylor The Water Poet Being 63 in number Collection into one volum By the Author
All the Workes of Iohn Taylor The Water Poet Being 63 in number Collection into one volum By the Author With Sundry new Additions Corrected, Revised, and newly Imprinted.
T Cockson Sculp
1630 [bit later]
Engraving, 185 x 280mm. 7¼ x 11".
Frontispiece to an edition of works by John Taylor ('The Water Poet', 1578-1653), with a portrait of the author. Born in Gloucester, Taylor moved to London in the 1590s and served an apprenticeship to a waterman, ferrying passengers on the Thames. He later occupied prominent positions in the Watermen's Company. Besides epic boating expeditions in England and Scotland, Taylor travelled widely in Europe, and produced a considerable amount of travel-writing. He published his 'Works' in 1630, and lacking a patron dedicated it to 'the world'. Later years saw him take part in an expedition, sponsored by the Crown, to survey the upper Thames, before his fortunes faltered. Taylor died in poverty and was buried in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster. Engraved by Thomas Cockson (1591-1636 fl.).

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Effigies Doctissimi Uiri D.ni Francisci White. S.T. Professoris et Ecclesiae Cathis Carleolensis Decani Ao Aeta 59. Anno 1624.
Effigies Doctissimi Uiri D.ni Francisci White. S.T. Professoris et Ecclesiae Cathis Carleolensis Decani Ao Aeta 59. Anno 1624. Wisdome and grace, see in that modest looke Trueth's triumph, errors downfall, in this booke. Maerebunt piscatores. Isa.19.8.
TCocksonus sculp.
[n.d. c.1624.]
Engraving. 190 x 120mm. 7½ x 4¾".
Portrait of Francis White, when Dean of Carlisle, half length in an oval, aged 59, wearing skull-cap, ruff and robes, seated at a desk writing in a book; coat of arms above, and decorated frame. Frontispiece to his 'Reply to Jesuit Fisher' (London, 1624). Francis White, Bishop of Ely (1564?-1638), was an English Bishop and controversialist.
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove. See Ref: 25327.
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