Accession number
PML 76455.3
Creator
Sylvester, Joshua.
Published
[London] : [Printed by Humphrey Lownes], [1616-1617]
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Capital Fund, 1980.
Notes
Signed on H8r: Iosuah Syluester.
Imprint from STC.
Signatures: F-I⁸ K⁴ L⁸.
Includes "Simile non est idem", "A glimse of heauenly ioyes", and "Auto-machia", the latter a translation by Sylvester of the Latin work by George Goodwin.
Leaves F2.3 are a cancel bifolium bearing a dedication to Sir George Villiers as Earl of Buckingham. Variant: F2,3 are cancellanda, with dedication to Villiers as Viscount.
H7,8 are printed as H4.5.
Also issued with STC 23582 and 23575.
PML copy includes the dedication to Buckingham.
Imprint from STC.
Signatures: F-I⁸ K⁴ L⁸.
Includes "Simile non est idem", "A glimse of heauenly ioyes", and "Auto-machia", the latter a translation by Sylvester of the Latin work by George Goodwin.
Leaves F2.3 are a cancel bifolium bearing a dedication to Sir George Villiers as Earl of Buckingham. Variant: F2,3 are cancellanda, with dedication to Villiers as Viscount.
H7,8 are printed as H4.5.
Also issued with STC 23582 and 23575.
PML copy includes the dedication to Buckingham.
Description
[7], 82-116, [6], 119-158 pages ; 14 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Bound at the front is a leaf with a manuscript dedication by Sylvester to Edward Lewis (see British Literary Manuscripts, vol. I, no. 24; perhaps Sir Edward Lewis of Glamorgan (1560-1628)): "To the worthilie Honored Sr. Edward Lewis, Knight. As like drawes like (by Sympathie), Hard loadstones, Steel; sweet flowers the B[??] to golden Sun, the Marigold: Yo[u]r Names & Vertues (Noble Knight) Suiting my royal Saincts so right, Attract us to you, too-too-bold. Among the Worthies of the land, that have vouchsaft w[i]th heart & hand to wel-come Bartas Muse & Ours; Disdaign not (Sir) w[i]th hand & heart To entertain This slender Parte, from Him, who vowes him. Humbly Yo[u]rs. Josuah Sylvester."
Provenance
Perhaps Sir Edward Lewis of Glamorgan (1560-1628), manuscript dedication (see below); unidentified owner [Samuel ???], signature trimmed (title page); unidentified citation: "[???] II, 1626" and bibliographic inscription: "2 addl leaves in St Lewis the King not in my other cop[y] which collates perfect without them" (front pastedown); Arthur A. Houghton, booklabel (front pastedown), his sale: Christie's NY, part II, 14 June 1980, lot 506; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Fellows Capital Fund, 1980.
Binding
18th-century English full brown calf, blind-tooled, over paper boards. Unidentified manusript note at end regarding the binding of this volume.
Classification
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