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The arte of English poesie : contriued into three bookes: the first of poets and poesie, the second of proportion, the third of ornament.

Accession number
PML 6515
Published
London : Printed by R. Field, 1589.
Notes
First edition.
Numbers 93-100 omitted in paging.
Printer's mark on t.-p.
"Between sig. N and sig. O in two or three known copies are four cancelled leaves marked j, ij, and iij, and the last unsigned. A perfect copy should have 133 leaves, including the Table, and the portrait of Q. Elizabeth."--Hazlitt's Handbook, p. 488.
Both George Puttenham and his brother Richard have been credited with the authorship of this work. Such evidence as is procurable points to the elder brother, Richard. cf. Dict. nat. biog.
Very rare.
Britwell copy has ... 1f. ...
AB[superscript]iv a blank, lacking; Mm[superscript]2 lacking.
Description
2 p. ., 258 [i.e. 250], [4] p. : front. (port.) diagrs. ; 20 cm
Binding
Red morocco, gilt, by Riviere.
Classification
Department