[Rarebooks] FS: 1750 Poem on Silkworms w/engraved plate

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Pullein, Samuel. "THE SILKROWM: A POEM. IN TWO BOOKS. Written by Marcus
Hieronymus Vida, and translated into English Verse by the Reverend Samuel
Pullein, of Trinity College, Dublin"

Dublin; Printed by S. Powell, for the author: 1750.

Quite a remarkable piece of poetry- both the original and the translation.
Marcus Hieronymus Vida [1470-1566] of Cremona was a gifted poet who was
patronized by the Pope and did quite a remarkable job of, as Pullein
notes, making a detailed poem about the raising of silk worms interesting.

Pullein [b.1713] was himself no slouch, and won the Royal Dublin Society’s
Madden Prize for this work. In the same year that he published this poem,
Pullein wrote an essay to promote the culture of silkworms in Ireland, and
several years later he wrote his influential book “The Culture of Silk, or
an Essay on Its Rational Practice and Improvement for the Use of the
American Colonies”.

The engraved frontispiece shows the interior of a silkworm room, with the
worms being tended by several women in robes vaguely resembling those of
ancient Greece.

Hardcover. 6.25”x10”, x, 141 pages, engraved frontispiece; with the final
errata and “Observations” sheet, which is often lacking. Newly rebound in
green “silked” cloth with paper spine label; new endpapers; title page
repaired at the top, not affecting the text; text with light toning and a
few spots, but overall nice. [30745] $500.00



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