Nosce teipsum. This oracle expounded in two elegies. 1. Of humane knowledge. 2. Of the soule of man, and the immortalitie thereof. Hymnes of Astræa in acrosticke verse. Orchestra, or, A poeme of dauncing. In a dialogue betweene Penelope, and one of her wooers. Not finished

Accession number

PML 6051

Creator

Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.

Published

London : Printed by Augustine Mathewes for Richard Hawkins, and are to be sold at his shop in Chancery Lane, neere Serieants Inne, 1622.

Credit line

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes

"Hymnes of Astræa, in acrosticke verse" and "Orchestra" each have separate dated title pages; register is continuous.
General title page has "ORCHESTRA,"; L3r contains errata. Variant 1: title page has "Orchestra." Variant 2: L3r lacks errata.
Signatures: A⁸ B-K⁸ L⁴, leaf A1 blank.

Description

[4], 81, [81] pages ; 15 cm (8vo)

Provenance

Almon Whiting Griswold; Theordore Irwin, purchased at Griswold's sale, Dec. 1880; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Binding

Half green morocco.

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books