Author: LARKIN (Edward):
Title: Speculum Patrum: A Looking-Glasse of the Fathers, Wherein, You may see each of them drawn, Characterized, and Displayed in their colours. To which are added, The Characters of the Chief Philosophers, Historians, Grammarians, Orators, and Poets.
Description: London: Printed for Henry Eversden..., 1659. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 158 x 100 mms., pp. [iv], 99 [100 blank]. BOUND WITH: LARKIN (Ed.): The True Effigies, or Portraicture Of the chief Philosophers, Historians, Poets, Grammarians, and Oratours. Or a Compendious View of each, both dignified with, and distinguished by, their peculiar Characters. London, Printed by E. Cotes, for Henry Eversden..., 1759. 8vo, 158 x 100 mms., pp. [9] 10 - 223 [224 Errata], recently rebound in full antique-style calf, title blcoked in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Larkin (also Lorkin, 1623 - 1688) was minister at Limesfield in Surrey was also a fellow of Kings College, Cambridge, and these two volumes appear to be his only published works. Both volumes are basically dictionaries or encyclopedias of the learned, usually Christian saints, martyrs, and theologians. From time to time, secular figures such as Democritus and Heratclitus, make an apperance; of the latter, he says, not without (?unintended) humour, that he had "affections quite contrary to those of Democritus, for he would weep at every object, as the others laughed: He is by Suidas cal'd obscure, and dark, because he so clouded all his Speeches, that the best-eyed, and most judicious Philosophers could very hardly discover the meaning of them."

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