Accession number
PML 5846
Creator
Benlowes, Edward, 1603?-1676.
Published
London : Printed by R.N., sold by Henry Seile and Humphrey Moseley, 1652.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
T.p. printed in red and black.
Engravings signed: Will. Marshall, P. Lovell, Lambart, Tho. Cecill; other engravings by Francis Barlow and Wenceslaus Hollar.
Includes some Latin verses and translations by the author, and Latin translations of Canto I by Alexander Ross and of Canto VII by Jeremy Collier, the elder.
No two copies are the same; Benlowes personally bound up each one as a particular presentation copy.--ODNB.
PML copy includes all 12 plates.
Engravings signed: Will. Marshall, P. Lovell, Lambart, Tho. Cecill; other engravings by Francis Barlow and Wenceslaus Hollar.
Includes some Latin verses and translations by the author, and Latin translations of Canto I by Alexander Ross and of Canto VII by Jeremy Collier, the elder.
No two copies are the same; Benlowes personally bound up each one as a particular presentation copy.--ODNB.
PML copy includes all 12 plates.
Description
[48], 268 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings, woodcuts), map, ports. ; 29 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Extensive annotations by Benlowes, including blocks of verse, anagrams, and marginal comments and corrections.
Provenance
Author's presentation copy to Henry Seile and Humphrey Moseley; Theodore Irwin; bookplate of Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Full brown morocco with gilt stamping on covers and spine, all edges gilt, by F. Bedford.
Classification
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