A Feast for Worms; Pentelogia; Hadassa (or the History of Queen Ester); Job Militant; The History of Sampson; Sions Sonnets sung by Solomon the King and paraphrased; Sions Elegies, wept by Jeremiah the Prophet and Paraphras'd

A compilation of Quarles' works. The overall title page with details of the publisher is missing, but there is a dedication to King Charles I which was clearly specially written for the work, which makes it likely that it was published in the 1630's (it makes no reference to Civil War). Each work has a separate title page or a large heading, and retains the dedications etc written when they were first published. The first text is 'A Feast for Worms' totalling 64 pages, which has a note for the Reader and has pages 13-36 misbound out of sequence. The second is Pentelogia, a short text covering pp 65-70. The third is Hadassa with a separate title page, preface to the Reader, introduction, dedication, and the History of Esther, running to p 147. The fourth is Job Militant with half title page, proposition, dedication and text running to p 231. The fifth is the History of Sampson with no title page but starting with 'To the Reader' and text to p 232. The sixth is Sion's Sonnets with a separate title page, note to readers and sonnets to p 369. The seventh is Sion's Elegies with a title page, note to the Reader and text through to p 431. There is an Epitaph - Her Epitaph - after the end page of the Elegies. In original full leather binding with raised bands. The binding is worn with split joints and wear to corners, edges and spine. The contents are in good clean condition and appear complete bar the initial title page and any preliminaries before the dediction to King Charles. There is some browning to page edges.