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(HOWELL, James). Dodona's Grove, Or The Vocall Forrest. The Second Edition more exact and perfect then the former, with an Addition of two other Tracts: viz. Parables, reflecting upon the Times. And England's Teares for the present Warres. By J.H.
London: Printed in the year 1644. Second edition, with additional tracts. Small 4to., full contemporary calf, professionally rebacked with the spine laid down, (14), 172, [ie 164] pp. The additional tracts have separate titlepages but the pagination is continuous. With an added engraved titlepage. Pinkish stain in the lower margin, beginning at b4 but then becoming faint throughout, this copy ha been professionally rebacked with the spine laid down, in fact a better than very good but not quite near fine copy.
James Howell [c.1594-1666] Anglo-Welsh historian and writer, educated at Oxford. Howell travelled in literary circles with friends such as Ben Jonson and Kenelm Digby. The outbreak of the English Civil War made it impossible to take up his secretaryship of the Privy Council. In 1640 he published the above work, a political allegory in prose focusing on the events between 1603 and 1640 described through the allegorical framework of a typology of trees.
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