[Rarebooks] FS: 1818 Funeral Memorials- Lee Priory Press, 1/100

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Brydges, Sir Egerton (ed.). SELECT FUNERAL MEMORIALS. Kent; Printed at the
private press of Lee Priory by John Warwick: 1818. Edition probably
limited to 100 copies. A collection of excerpts from funeral and memorial
sermons, collected by Brydges (1762-1837), an antiquarian, author and
editor who ran the private press at Lee Priory. He notes-

    “I have found that among heaps of Funeral
     Sermons there are intermixed many eloquent
     and beautiful memorials which ought to be
     rescued from oblivion...I have adopted
     therefore the plan...to preserve these relics,
     as they occur to me amidst the multifarious
     researches to which my wandering curiosity
     impels me”.

The collection begins with Sidney Godolphin’s 17th century “An Epitaph
Upon the Lady Rich”, which eventually brings the editor to Sidney
Godolphin’s own death and memorial. He then moves through 5 other Memorial
pieces, to end with an extended entry upon the death of Henry, Prince of
Wales, in 1613, which includes Henry Chapman’s epic “An Epicede, or
Funeral Song: On the most disastrous Death of the High-born Prince of Men,
Henry Prince of Wales”. An interesting early 19th century selection of
17th century funeral and memorial verse and texts.

The Lee Priory Press operated from 1813 to 1824, reprinting a number of
texts of Antiquarian interest. An 1823 circular and list of the Press’s
titles states that each title was limited to 100 copies. It also states
that a second part of our title was eventually published, although this
first part is complete in itself.

Hardcover. 7.5”x10”, v + 70 pages, title page with an engraved vignette,
plus several decorated initial letters, head and tailpieces. Bound into
modern blue boards; clean, wide-margined and a choice specimen. [09618]
$450.00

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