Lot 66: SAMUEL WARD.

Woe to Drunkards. A. Math[ewes] for John Marriott and John Grismand, 1622

Condition Note:

8vo, first edition, illustrated woodcut title, first issue with catchword 'nities' on A3r, lacking A1 (?blank), [bound with:] All in All. A Mathewes for J. Marriott and J. Grismand, 1622, 8vo, first edition, illustrated allegorical woodcut title with 'Types & Figures of Christ' in concentric circles, lacking A1 (?blank); woodcut headlines and initials, a few notes in a contemporary hand, later quarter red morocco, marbled boards, outer margins cut close occasionally cropping commentary, slight damp-staining, edges worn

STC 25055, 25033a

The puritan divine, emblematist, and caricaturist Samuel Ward of Ipswich (1577-1640) was a scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge and in 1603 was elected by the corporation of Ipswich to the office of town preacher, occupying the pulpit of St. Mary-le-Tower "with little intermission, for about thirty years" (DNB). A skilled designer and caricaturist he was imprisoned in 1621 for an anti-Spanish engraving, prosecuted for non-conformity (1622-3) and suspended for puritanical teaching (1635). It seems quite possible he designed the illustrations for the title pages of both works in this lot. The first work is a sermon expounding on the dangers and evils of drunkeness; the second a sermon on Collossians 3 ii, on God's transcendence and the all-sufficiency of Christ.