Accession number
PML 16312
Creator
Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.
Published
At London : Printed by V[alentine]. S[immes]. for Edward Blount, [1603]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Certaine epistles after the manner of Horace, and A defence of ryme : against a pamphlet entituled Observations in the art of English poesie, both have separate t.p.
Signatures: [pi]1 A⁶ B⁴ [chi]1 C⁴ D² E⁶ F²(+²[chi]1) G-H⁶ I1(misprinting 'A2' for G2).
Signatures: [pi]1 A⁶ B⁴ [chi]1 C⁴ D² E⁶ F²(+²[chi]1) G-H⁶ I1(misprinting 'A2' for G2).
Description
[80] pages ; 26 cm (fol)
Provenance
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621), signature (title page, with date 1603, and on front cover but abraded); Frederic Ouvry (1814-1881), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sale: Sotheby's, 30 March 1882, lot 337, to Ellis for £16.5.0; John Payne Collier (1789-1883), bibliographic inscription (bound-in at title page), not in his sale: Sotheby's, 7 Aug. 1884; Ellis & Elvey, General Catalogue (1899), part 1, no. 483; Marshall C. Lefferts (1848-1928), gilt booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Bangs & Co. (New York), 21 April 1902 (but lot 324 bound in brown morocco by Charles Lewis); Clarence S. Bement (1843-1923), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto and rear pastedown), collection likely sold privately through Rosenbach; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from ASW Rosenbach, Oct. 1909.
Binding
17th-century gilt-tooled vellum; rebacked with brown calf and renewed endleaves.
Classification
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