Philosophicall poems / by Henry More.

Platonick song of the soul

Cambridge : Printed by Roger Daniel, printer to the University, 1647.

28 unnumbered pages, 71, that is, 73 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 73-218 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 219-253 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 225, that is, 255 pages-298 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 299-436 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 18 cm (8vo)

Numbers 36-37 repeated in pagination; pages 67, 116, and 255 incorrectly numbered 76, 119, and 225 respectively.

Woodcut printer's device on t.p.

Woodcut headpieces and initials.

Errata: final leaf.

Each part of the 'Song of the soul' has special t.p.--Psychozoia, or, The first part of the Song of the soul.--Psychathanasia, or, The second part of the Song of the soul.--Democritus Platonissans, or, An essay upon the infinity of worlds out of Platonick principles. Annexed to this second part of the Song of the soul.--Antipsychopannychia, or, The third book of the Song of the soul.--The praeexistency of the soul, added as an appendix to this third part of the Song of the soul.--Antimonopsychia, or, The fourth part of the Song of the soul.

"Notes": p. 335-420; "The interpretation generall": p. 421-436.

The 'Song of the soul' was first published in 1642 (with title Psychozoia Platonica) in four parts without the appendices.

Landes lists two eds. of the same year, the first without the separate t.p.s found in this ed.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: B. Rota. Note: Binding: Contemp. calf, blind-ruled, rebacked preserving original spine. Concentric circles carved into upper cover. Early callmarks in MS on front pastedown.

A platonick song of the soul ...--An addition of some few smaller poems.

Wing (2nd ed.), M2670

Crocker, R. "A bibliography of Henry More", in Hutton, S. (ed.) Henry More (1990), p. 221.

Landes, M. "Bibliography" in More, H. (ed. F.I. MacKinnon), Philosophical writings (1925), p. 235.

ESTC R14921

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M2670