[Rarebooks] FS: Tho You Be called Gods, You MUST DIE! (1713)

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “An Theater of Mortality: or, A Further Collection of Funeral
Inscriptions over Scotland...”

By Robert Monteith.
Printed in Edinburgh by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson in
1713. 2nd Edition.

DISCUSSION: First published in 1704, one of the earliest English-language
collections of epitaphs. Monteith dedicated the first edition to the
worthy burghers of Edinburgh, and wrote that he hoped that "This Treatise
may serve as a Monitor, to whisper you in the Ear, that you are Men; And
tho' you be called Gods, you must die. This sets before you the Memoirs,
of those Excellent Worthies, whose Steps you tread and whose Vertues you
imitate; and whose (following) Inscriptions, changing only the Names, may
be thought just Delineations and Descriptions of your selves, your Way and
Walk".

Robert Monteith, A.M., was the son of a merchant in Edinburgh. He took his
degree as Master of Arts at the University there in 1662, and was
appointed minister of Borgue in Kirkcudbright. In 1682, while serving at
Carrington, he was accused of “sundry very gross miscarriages,” and
eventually deposed for drunkenness. Monteith then made a precarious living
by publishing books and writing funeral elegies, and became noted
especially for his book “Theater of Mortality”. He died in Edinburgh on
the 6th September 1719.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 4.5"x7", [i] [vi] 280 pages. Bound in full period
polished calf with gilt spine decorations; handsome engraved bookplate of
William Nisbet of Dirleton.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers with some wear, spine rubbed. Text a little
browned and with some light foxing. Endpapers browned.

PRICE: $375

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