View source for Philip Ayres 1638-1712

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===[[name::Philip]] [[name::AYRES]] [[date of birth::1638]]-[[date of death::1712]]===

====Biographical Note====
Born at [[place of birth::Cottingham, Northamptonshire]]. Travelling to [[location::Spain]] and [[location::Portugal]] with [[associates::Sir Richard Fanshawe]]'s embassy as a [[occupation::steward]], Ayres began to learn Spanish and published a [[translator::translation]] of A. G. de Salas Barbadillo’s [[book title::''El necio bien afortunado'']] titled [[book title::''The Fortunate Fool'']] ([[date of publication::1670]]). In the 1670s he worked as [[occupation::tutor]] to [[associates::the Drake family]], of [[location::Agmondesham, Buckinghamshire]]. Ayres is known primarily for the two literary works, the [[book title::''Emblemata amatoria'']] ([[date of publication::1683]]) and [[book title::''Lyrick Poems'']] ([[date of publication::1687]]). 

====Books====
Ayres' library was sold by [[retail sale::retail sale]] in [[location of sale::London]], [[date of sale::10.11.1713]]. 

====Characteristic Markings====
A copy listed by Maggs Bros of an Anacreon translation (1683), which later belonged to [[crossreference::John Holmes 1702/3-1760|John Holmes]], has the inscription of Philip Ayres on the titlepage.

====Sources====
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*Christie’s 23.6.1977 (Evelyn sale)/262.
*Alston, R. C. ''Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800''.  St Philip, 2010.
*''Bibliotheca Ayresiana'', [London, 1713], ESTC t14357.
*Davidson, Peter, and Ian William McLellan. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/946 "Ayres, Philip (1638–1712), poet and translator."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. 
*Maggs Bros.  Catalogue 1447/7: ‘Wing Books Printed in England 1641-1700 from the Library of James Stevens Cox (1910-1997)’. London, 2011.
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