A really charming early edition of Christopher Harvey's classic devotions on the heart, and really beautiful metaphorical woodcuts. Harvey [1597-1663] was born to his puritan divine father, also Christopher Harvey, who was friends with Samuel Torshell, and others. Upon his father's death, his mother married the puritan, Thomas Pierson. He was one of the truly great devotional poets of the era and published a series of poems that were issued as "The Synagogue" and appended to George Herbert's works.
Harvey, Christopher. The School of the Heart: Or, The Heart (Of Itself Gone Away from God) Brought Back Again to Him; And Instructed By Him. In Forty-Seven Emblems. By the Author of the Synagogue Annexed to George Herbert's Poems. Whereunto is Added the Learning of the Heart, by the Same Hand. London. H. Trapp. 1778. 154pp + Translations.
Attractive quarter leather, probably rebacked in the 20th century, expertly done. Rubbed at extremities. Very solid. Some foxing, but crisp overall and all engravings in a very nice,c crisp state.
