Thērologia, The parly of beasts, or, Morphandra, queen of the inchanted iland : wherein men were found, who being transmuted to beasts, though proffer'd to be dis-inchanted, and to becom men again, yet, in regard of the crying sins and rebellious humors of the times, they prefer the life of a brute animal before that of a rational creture... : with reflexes upon the present state of most countries in Christendom : divided into a XI sections
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Type of record: Book
Title: Thērologia, The parly of beasts, or, Morphandra, queen of the inchanted iland : wherein men were found, who being transmuted to beasts, though proffer'd to be dis-inchanted, and to becom men again, yet, in regard of the crying sins and rebellious humors of the times, they prefer the life of a brute animal before that of a rational creture... : with reflexes upon the present state of most countries in Christendom : divided into a XI sections
Other titles: The parly of beasts; Morphandra, queen of the inchanted iland
Classmark: BC Lt q/HOW
Creator(s): Howell, James (1594?-1666)
Publisher: Printed by W. Wilson for William Palmer
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1660
Language: English
Size and medium: [20], 152, [10] p., 1 plate
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/274459
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000058319705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
An allegory.
Title transliterated from Greek.
Half-title reads "Morphandra, or Queen of the inchanted iland"; running title reads "The parly of beasts".
First ed. Cf. Grolier. Wither to Prior.
"The first tome".
No more published?.
Advertisements: p. [12] at end.
Includes index.
Indexed in: Wing H3119.
Additional description
Frontispiece in this copy engraved by R. Gaywood after F. Barlow. Corner cut off frontispiece which is mounted. With label of James Forbes Leith, whose inscription records the donation by his son Dr. Theodore Forbes Leith, 1779
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