Accession number
PML 6330-32
Creator
Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.
Published
London : Humphrey Lownes, 1605
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
A[superscript 10] in cl'd engraved title (lacking in this copy) B-Xx in 8s; xx*, 3ff; Yy-Aaa[superscript 8]-Posthumus Bartas, 1606. Title, 1 f; Sonnet, Kk*; Text, Ll*--Ggg*[superscript 2] in 4s; Tropheis, Aaa-Eee in 8s.
Bound in 3 volumes.
Edition 2.
Includes translations of "Quatrains" by Guy du Faur seigneur de Pibrac and "Paradoxe que les adversitez sont plus necessaires que les prosperités" by Odet de La Noue seigneur de Téligny.
Separate title page with imprint for: The second weeke : or childhood of the world (T2), with imprint reading: At London, printed by Humphrey Lownes dwelling on Bred-streete hill at the signe of the Starre, 1605.
"The second vveeke" and "Tetrastika. Or The quadrains of Guy de Faur, Lord of Pibrac" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. The first word "Tetrastika" transliterated from the Greek.
With: I Posthumus Bartas. The third day of his second weeke (formerly STC 21664), with separate title dated 1606; evidently issued as a complementary volume to the 1605 publication, paginated separately but with the signatures signed continuously, the former ending with Kk6 and the title page of I Posthumus Bartas signed Kk*7.
Illustrated with woodcut ornaments and three full page illustrations, including tworepeated impressions of a coat of arms.
Lacking title page; with separate title for the first part (B8) bound in front: The first weeke: or birth of the world. of the noble, learned, and divine W. Salustius, Lord of Bartas; with printer's device (P. Short's "Et usque ad nubes veritas tua"); dated 1605.
This differs from the colls. of both the Huth and Hoe copies, having all after I Posthumus Bartas, in addition.
Bound in 3 volumes.
Edition 2.
Includes translations of "Quatrains" by Guy du Faur seigneur de Pibrac and "Paradoxe que les adversitez sont plus necessaires que les prosperités" by Odet de La Noue seigneur de Téligny.
Separate title page with imprint for: The second weeke : or childhood of the world (T2), with imprint reading: At London, printed by Humphrey Lownes dwelling on Bred-streete hill at the signe of the Starre, 1605.
"The second vveeke" and "Tetrastika. Or The quadrains of Guy de Faur, Lord of Pibrac" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. The first word "Tetrastika" transliterated from the Greek.
With: I Posthumus Bartas. The third day of his second weeke (formerly STC 21664), with separate title dated 1606; evidently issued as a complementary volume to the 1605 publication, paginated separately but with the signatures signed continuously, the former ending with Kk6 and the title page of I Posthumus Bartas signed Kk*7.
Illustrated with woodcut ornaments and three full page illustrations, including tworepeated impressions of a coat of arms.
Lacking title page; with separate title for the first part (B8) bound in front: The first weeke: or birth of the world. of the noble, learned, and divine W. Salustius, Lord of Bartas; with printer's device (P. Short's "Et usque ad nubes veritas tua"); dated 1605.
This differs from the colls. of both the Huth and Hoe copies, having all after I Posthumus Bartas, in addition.
Description
3 v. ([36], 160, 169-383, [6], 386-387, 390-435, [4], 438-660, [29], 674-715, [1] pages) : illustrations (woodcut) ; 19.4 cm
Provenance
Roger Sidonham, signature (final leaf, PML 6332); Theodore Irwin; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
17th-century English tree calf.
Classification
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