REDUCED FROM $3,500 TO $2,495 GIANT CLEARANCE SALE!!! EVERYTHING MUST GO!   SEE MY OTHER ITEMS OR YOULL BE SORRY! CLICK BELOW, SOME ARE ENDING SOON! http://stores.ebay.com/THE-WORD-Antiquarian-Books     ULTRA-RARE AND EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE!!! 1638 FIRST AND ONLY FOLIO EDITION!!! WITH ITS ORIGINAL LEATHER BINDING!   [1638 First & Only Folio Edition] "A PARAPHRASE VPON THE DIVINE POEMS" By George Sandys. London: Printed by John Legatt at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1638. (Colophon Dated 1637) First and Only Folio Edition of this Rare and Highly Sought after work. 11" x 7", Bound in its Original Full-Calf binding with Original hinges and 5 raised bands on Original Spine. Curling and chipping to outer margins of first blank and Title Page. Title page to the Lamentations of Jeremiah in rear of book with torn blank corner not affecting text. WITH MUSIC TO THE PSALMS! Approx. 274 printed pages with multi-page dedications throughout. 100% Complete! AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE & SCARCE FIRST FOLIO EDITION! NOTE: More Information on George Sandys and the settlement at Jamestown, VA can be found at: http://www.apva.org/resource/other/sandy.html GEORGE SANDYS (1578-1644): was one of the most interesting figures of the early English literary period, his life and career encompassing a variety of momentous endeavors. As a colonialist leader in Virginia he and his colleagues established the first self governing rule in English America known as the famous House of Burgesses. As an adventurer in Jamestown he led its militia in fighting off invading indian warriors in 1624, a contest that barely saved the Virginian experiment. Nevertheless, while there he did considerable work in poetry becoming America's first poet. Returning to England, and settling at Great Tew along with other poets such as William Chillingworth and Lord Falkland, he won considerable favor in Charles I's court. Although he remained loyal to the king, Sandys was adamantly opposed to the oppressive policies of the Anglican church under Archbishop Laud. He became an increasingly outspoken critic of absolutist government. His last work was a translation of a Latin religious play by Hugo Grotius, as the first in a series of literary attacks on Archbishop Laud. George Sandys was an English adventurer, Virginian and Poet, the youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York, was born in March 1578. His father was an Anglican but a strong Calvinist, teaching his sons the Genevan brand of reformed faith. George studied at St. Mary Hall in Oxford. His historic travels began in 1610 when he first visited France; from Italy he passed through Venice and on to Constantinople, and further on to Egypt, Mt. Sinai, The Holy Land, Cyprus, Sicily, and back to Rome. He traveled as the first sort of "ambassador at large", representing England to many foreign nations, and his narrative was dedicated (like many of his his other prominent works) to Charles (as either as prince or king) This, his first work was published in 1615 and formed a substantial contribution to geography and early English foreign diplomacy. Under the influence of an older bother, he also took great interest in the earliest English colonization in America. "Undaunted by the train of misfortunes, the kingdom awoke to the greatness of the undertaking [the colonization of Virginia], and designs worthy of the English nation were conceived. The second charter of Virginia, which, at the request of the former corporation, passed the seals on the twenty-third of May, 1609, entrusted the colonization of that land to a very numerous, opulent, and influential body of adventurers. The name of Robert Cecil, earl of Salisbury, appears at the head of those who were to carry into execution the grand design to which Raleigh, now a close prisoner in the Tower, had aroused the attention of his countrymen. Among the many whose names followed were Sir Oliver Cromwell, uncle to the future protector, ... George Sandys, and many tradesmen, ..." "To the other titles of "the high empress" Elizabeth, ... just before the end of the sixteenth century, added that of "queen of Virginia;" King James, who was already the titular sovereign of four realms, now accepted as the motto for the London company's coat of arms: "Lo! Virginia gives a fifth crown." A strong interest took hold of the people of England; gifts and bequests came in for "the sacred work" of founding a colonial college and building up the colonial church. There were two poets, of whose works Richard Baxter said that he found "none so savoury next to the Scripture poems." Of these, George Sandys, son of the archbishop of York, himself repaired to Virginia as its resident treasurer, to assist in establishing "a rich and well peopled kingdom;" ..." "Virginians [were] already involved in a war of extermination. First in the field was George Sandys, the colonial treasurer, who headed two expeditions; ... Various were the employments by which the stillness of [Virginian] life was relieved. George Sandys, who was in Virginia as treasurer for the colony, a poet, whose verse was praised by his friend Drayton and by Izaak Walton, as well as by Richard Baxter. Sandys was a great supporter of self government in America and became resident colonial treasurer of the Virginia Company. He sailed to Virginia with his niece's husband, Sir Francis Wyatt, the new governor, and worked diligently to establish and maintain the new system of rule in the House of Burgesses. When Virginia became a crown colony in 1624, Sandys was created a member of council; he was reappointed to that post in 1626 and 1628. In 1625 he helped ensure the House of Burgesses was continued under the new King (Charles I) following the death of James, who'd undertaken plans of eliminating the Virginian body of local representative. Sandys was again instrumental in the survival of the colony during the indian raids of 1624 which devastated Jamestown and the surrounding the plantations. In 1631 he applied for the secretaryship to a new special commission for the better planting of Virginia, but soon after returned to England. Much of the success of America's first permanent English colony is owed to George Sandys. Even before his travels to America he'd already published an English translation of part of Ovid's Metamorphosis. He completed the translation while in America by 1626. That work and others while in America established Sandys as a leading English poet and the first to compose in America. After his return to England he issued his famous Paraphrases upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments. Sandy dedicated that work to Charles I, presenting him with an elaborately bound copy that Sandys designed himself. In 1641 he published his last work, a Paraphrase of the Song of Songs. In 1644 he died, at Boxley, near Maidstone, Kent. The Poet John Milton was considerably influenced by Sandys' Hymn to my Redeemer which had been inserted in his travels at the place of his visit to the Holy Sepulcher in his Ode on the Passion. NOTE: More Information on George Sandys and the settlement at Jamestown, VA can be found at: http://www.apva.org/resource/other/sandy.html ***A SPECTACULAR INVESTMENT OR GIFT FOR YOUR CHURCH!***   TERMS: PAYPAL, OR CONTACT ME FOR EXPENSIVE ITEMS OVER PAYPAL LIMITS. 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