[Rarebooks] fa: CHARLES COTTON - THE WONDERS OF THE PEAKE - 1683

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Charles Cotton: The Wonders of the Peake. London: Printed by J.  
Wallis, for Joanna Brome, at the Gun in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1683.  
The second edition. Modern half-leather and marbled boards with gilt- 
stamped spine labels; 8vo; [6] + 86 pp.; with the initial blank leaf,  
as called for in the collation, and three blank leaves at the end.  
ESTC R2574.
An early example of English landscape poetry and perhaps the first  
tourist guidebook to the Peak District of Derbyshire, Cotton's work  
was instrumental in popularizing the area. Thomas Hobbes had preceded  
Cotton with his own poetic tribute to the Peak, De Mirabilibus Pecci,  
in Latin, in 1636, and Cotton mentions Hobbes in one of his footnotes.  
Charles Cotton (1630-1687) was a poet, landowner and country gentleman  
probably best known for translating Montaigne and for contributing   
several chapters to Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler. Cotton and  
Walton were close friends of long standing who often fished together  
on the banks of the River Dove, where the fishing cottage they built  
and shared still stands... An appealing example of an uncommon title.