Posthumus Bartas. II, The fore-noone of the fourth day of his second weeke ... / translated & dedicated to the Kings Maiestie by Iosuah Sylvester.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.

Contributor:

• Lownes, Humphrey, -1629, printer.
• STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Seconde sepmaine. Day 4. Part 1,2. English

Language:

• English
• French

Penn Provenance:

• Hall, Fitzedward, 1825-1901 (ex libris)
• Jebb, John, 1775-1833 (bookplate)
• James, Daniel (autograph)
• Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)
• Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor)
• Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 80 pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Fore-noone of the fourth day of his second week

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Humfrey Lownes, 1607.

Contents:

• (from t.p.) 1. The tropheis
• 2. The magnificence.

Notes:

• A translation of books 1 and 2 of Day 4 of: Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur. La seconde sepmaine.
• "A separate issue of quires 3A-3E of STC 21650, with special added title pages and dedications. Sometimes bound with STC 21650 or 21649a.5."--ESTC.
• Signatures: pi² 3A-3B⁸ 3C¹⁰ 3D-3E⁸.
• The words "1. The tropheis. 2. The magnificence. 3. - 4. -" are bracketed together on the title page; blank lines have been left after numbers 3 and 4.
• "The magnificence" has separate dated title page; pagination and signatures are continuous.
• Woodcuts: vignettes, head- and tail-pieces.
• Printed marginalia.
• Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 1153:08 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

• Penn Libraries copy bound with: Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste. Bartas his Deuine weekes & workes. At London : Printed by Humfrey Lownes ..., 1605 [i.e. 1606].
• Penn Libraries copy: leaf 3E8 repaired at bottom outer corner.

Cited in:

• STC (2nd ed.) 21665
• ESTC S110845

OCLC:

81438955