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Barnabees journall, under the names Mirtilus & Faustulus shadowed : for the travellers solace lately published, to most apt numbers reduced, and to the old tune of Barnabe commonly chanted / by Corymboeus [pseud.] ...

Accession number
PML 5802
Creator
Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
Published
[London : J. Haviland, 1638?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Frontispiece engr., by William Marshall.
Ornamental bands at top and bottom of each page. Initial.
Entered to Haviland in the Stationers' register, 7 June 1638.
With added title page (A¹v): Barnabae itinerarium, Mirtili & Faustuli nominibus insignitum: viatoris solatio nuperrimè editum, aptissimis numeris redactum, veterique tono Barnabae puclicè decantatum. Authore Corymboeo ...
In Latin & English on facing pages.
This version is in four parts. Pts. 1-2 were first published in Latin only around 1636, and are here reprinted with additions.
"Bessie Bell ...", in Latin & English: sig. Dd⁸v-Ee⁷r.
"Good reader, if this impression have errors in it, excuse it ...", signed by the editor, "Philander [pseud.]": Ee⁷v.
Second edition, 1716, published with title: Drunken Barnaby's four journeys to the north of England.
Separate titles to each part and to "Bessie Bell."
First ed.
Description
[448] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 12 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Green morocco, in 1/2 terra cotta morocco box.
Classification
Department