Description

Published 1907: First UK Editions / Limited to 1000 Copies / Hardcovers / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout / 4 Volume Set

Original red embossed cloth with gilt titles and decoration on the covers and spines. Circa 1900 + combined very clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, gilt top edges, mild speckled foxing on the opening pages, endpapers and on the edges consistent with age. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners and spine tips consistent with age but remain firm and intact. A very scarce original set. (PT226)

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Limited to 1000 Copies.

Contains: Moryson in Ireland: Tyrone’s Rebellion.

This is a travelogue of the ten-year travels of Fynes Moryson in twelve dominions in Europe. Originally written in Latin, it was later translated by Moryson himself into English.

These books provide a glimpse of the society, politics, and cultures of Europe during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Containing his Ten Yeeres Travell through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Google Books.

Fynes Moryson (1566-1630) was an Elizabethan gentleman, a couple of years younger than Shakespeare and Galileo. As a young man, in the 1590s, he travelled widely in Europe, and to the Holy Land.

Contains: Moryson in Ireland: Tyrone’s Rebellion.

Having returned to England in July 1597, Moryson spent the next couple of years staying with family in Lincolnshire. This gave him ‘a pleasing opportunitie to gather into some order out of confused and torne writings the particular observations of my former travels…’ Throughout the time of his travel and recuperation, Moryson had continued to hold his fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge, ‘which in my absence had yielded me some twenty pounds yearly’. At length, however, in July 1600, ‘being modest [embarrassed] further to importune so loving friends, and having the foresaid assurance of preferment in Ireland, I yielded up my fellowship…’ This ‘preferment’ was as secretary to Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy (1563-1606). Mountjoy was commander of the English forces in Ireland charged with supressing the rebellion of the Earl of Tyrone. Moryson continued as Mountjoy’s secretary until the latter’s death in 1606. Google Books.