Loves Garland
Privately Printed Oposcula
Issued to the Members of the Sette of Odd Volumes.
No. IV.
Loves Garland:
OR,
Posies for Rings, Hand-kerchers, & Gloves:
And such pretty Tokens that Lovers
send their Loves;
AND
Ye Garland of ye Sette of
Odd Volumes.
Privately Printed Opuscula
Issued to the Members of the Sette of Odd Volumes.
I. B. Q.
A Biographical and Bibliographical Fragment.
Written and Present in 1880, by Bro. Charles Wyman.
II. John Trotter Brockett.
A Glossary and Biography.
Presented in 1882, by Bro. Bernard Quaritch.
III. Ye Boke of ye Odd Volumes.
From 1878 to 1883.
Compiled by Bro. William Mort Thompson.
Presented by Bro. Bernard Quaritch.
IV. Loves Garland.
Or Posies for Rings, Hand-kerchers, & Gloves:
And such pretty tokens that Lovers send their Loves.
London, 1674.
Reprinted and Presented in 1883, by
Bro. James Roberts Brown.
YE ALCHYMIST.
(after John Cawse.)
It was too late, the desired opportunity I had so long desired had come, I had failed to seize it, and my dream of being the discoverer of the Philosophers’ Stone had melted away into thin air.—See page 23.
Loves Garland:
OR,
Posies for Rings, Hand-kerchers, & Gloves:
And such pretty Tokens that Lovers send
their Loves.
A REPRINT.
WHEREUNTO IS ADDED A COLLECTION OF POSIE MOTTOES,
GATHERED FROM DIVERS SOURCES, AND ENTITLED,
Ye Garland of Ye Sette of Odd Volumes.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED AN INTRODUCTION, IN WHICH
SOME TRITE THINGS ARE SAID CONCERNING
THE EFFORTS OF
THE EARLY ALCHEMISTS TO
TRANSMUTE THE BASER METALS INTO GOLD,
SHOWING A WAY THROUGH THE LABYRINTHS OF
“Ye Mystic Art”
TO
THE ABODE OF CUPID.
CONCLUDING BY A FEW WORDS TO
THE UNSENTIMENTAL SCEPTIC,
AND AN AUTHENTIC DEFINITION OF
THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE.
By JAMES ROBERTS BROWN,
Alchymist, &c. &c.
F.R.G.S., F.A.S.L., F.R.S.N.A. Copenhagen.
Imprynted by Bror C. W. H. Wyman
Typographer to ye Sette, at hys Printing-hovſe in Great Qveene
Street, over againſt Lincoln’s Inne Fields, within ye
Pariſh of Saynt Giles in ye Fields
London, m.d.ccc.lxxxiij
Dedicated and Presented
TO
Ye Sette of Odd Volumes
BY
Bro. James Roberts Brown,
Alchymist.
London, September, 1883.
EST—is it, and right well we know it,
DESIPERE—to play the fool
IN LOCO—when we’re out of school.
W. M. T.
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