Howell (James) Dendrologia [graece]. Dodona's Grove, or, the Vocall Forrest, first edition, engraved frontispiece, title with large engraved vignette of gardeners and typographical border, 2 engraved plates, all by M. Merian, woodcut head-pieces and initials, small marginal tear on frontispiece and repaired tears on front and rear pastedowns, occasional light marginal staining and spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked in morocco, corners a little rubbed, small 4to, [ESTC S119170; Pforzheimer 512; STC 13872], by T[homas] B[adger] for H. Moseley, 1640.
⁂ Howell (circa 1594-1666) associated with literary figures such as Ben Jonson and Kenelm Digby. The advent of the English Civil War prevented him from taking up the position of secretary of the Privy Council, and the present work, a political allegory in prose focusing on events between 1603 and 1640, described through a metaphorical framework of trees (the oak tree for example representing the Stuarts) was first issued in 1640. Howell's text is thought to have influenced Harrington's Commonwealth of Oceana of 1656.
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