L'Amour reglé... recolet dedié a Monseigneur de Barillon, marquis de Brange, &c. / par Charles Pora ...
1682
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L'Amour reglé... recolet dedié a Monseigneur de Barillon, marquis de Brange, &c. / par Charles Pora ...
Created/published
A Paris : Chez Michel Mairesse, 1682.
Description
[10], 328 p. ; 8vo
Associated name
Pora, Charles, author.
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Call number
FAST ACC 271258 (quarto)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The Georges Lurcy Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "8vo., pp. [10], 328, with an additional engraved title-page, and a dedication leaf to Barillon pasted over the first leaf of contents; a fine copy in handsome contemporary English red morocco, covers elaborately gilt with floriate and floral tools; ownership inscription to front endpaper: ‘Mary Howard her Book 1693’, and then ‘Now Mary Aston’s’. First(?) and only edition, extremely rare – only one other copy known – of this series of theological meditations on love by Charles Pora. The imprint is false; the main text-block was printed in Douai, but the work was apparently intended for distribution in England. The engraved title-page was produced in London, where the engraver Frederick van Hove was living, and indeed a unique copy of a variant title-page (only, without the text) survives among the Harleian fragments, with the imprint ‘A Londre avec permission 1681’. Pora himself was also resident in England, under the protection of the staunch Catholic nobleman Miles Stapleton (1626-1707), nephew of the playwright and translator Robert Stapleton. Stapleton supported a chaplain, Thomas Thwing, for his private chapel at Carlton (both were implicated during the ‘Popish Plot’ and Thwing executed), and also funded several priests for local Catholic families, apparently including Pora, who from 1660 to 1685 received an annuity of £20 from Stapleton. The latter’s accounts also show that on occasion Pora took Thwing’s place at Carlton. In 1678, Pora published A Sovereign balsam to cure the languishing diseases of this corrupt age, a mediation on various sins dedicated to Stapleton and his wife Elizabeth, noting that it had been conceived ‘during the time of my abode in your Family’. Nothing else is known of Pora (or Poragh/Poraugh as he also appears in the Stapleton papers)." Ordered from Quaritch, D9331, 2019-07-26, Advance Proofs cat 1440, item 59.
Folger accession
271258