Coryate (Thomas) The Odcombian Banquet: dished foorth by Thomas the Coriat, and serued in by a number of noble wits in prayse of his Crudities and Crambe too. Asinus portans mysteria, first edition in this form, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut head-pieces and historiated and decorative initials, lacking initial blank, title neatly restored and soiled, trimmed at head, affecting headlines, a few neat marginal repairs, some spotting, lightly browned, inner gilt dentelles, modern polished calf, gilt, spine in compartments richly so and with black morocco label, g.e., [Pforzheimer 219; STC 5810], small 4to, [George Eld] for Thomas Thorp, 1611. *** Rare at auction. According to Pforzheimer the work is apparently a pirated reprint of the 'Panegyricke verses' and other preliminary matter prefixed to Coryate's Crudities. The work consists of complimentary verses by Ben Jonson, John Donne, Henry Neville, Dudley Digges, Inigo Jones, Henry Peecham, Michael Drayton, and many others.