April 12, 2024
CORYAT'S CRUDITIES Ronald Fuller's signed copy & REX WHISTLER'S first bookplate
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Author Thomas Coryat Title Coryat's Crudities, Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany and the Netherlands; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Oldcombe in the County of Somerset, and now dipsersed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome. Signed This copy belonged to Ronald Fuller and has his bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. The bookplate was designed by Rex Whistler and was his first in 1925. It shows the usual Rex Whistler characters of skeleton and angels in a busy setting. It was drawn for Fuller whilst he was at Merton College Oxford. Ronald Fuller has signed volume one over the bookplate "Ronald Fuller at the Cafe Gozzi over the wine with EB. Jan 12 1937". EB's identity is a mystery (Edmund Blunden?) Publisher & Printing Details James MacLehose, Glasgow, 1905. Hardback, two volumes (complete), red cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine and roundel design to front board. Approx 23 x 15cm. Vol 1: xx + 428pp with five illustrations. Volume 2: xi + 436pp, five illustrations. About the Book The book is an account of a journey undertaken, much of it on foot, in 1608 through France, Italy, Germany, and other European countries by Thomas Coryat of Odcombe. Among other
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