The vvhole woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquire: newlye compyled into one volume, that is to say: his Flowres, hearbes, weedes, the fruites of warre, the comedie called Supposes, the tragedie of Iocasta, the Steele glasse, the complaint of Phylomene, the storie of Ferdinando Ieronimi, and the pleasure at Kenelworth Castle.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Gascoigne, George, -1577.

Contributor:

Gascoigne, George, -1577.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 216:1.

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 216:2.

Standardized Title:

Works

Language:

English

Physical Description:

32 unnumbered pages, 158 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 4 unnumbered pages, 76 pages 77-106 leaves, 107-173 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 175-296 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves, 291-306 leaves, 307-216, that is, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 217, that is, 317-351 pages, 1 unnumbered page; 56 unnumbered pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Hearbes.

VVeedes.

Weedes.

Steele glas.

Briefe rehearsall, or rather a true copie of as much as was presented before her maiesties at Kenelworth.

Briefe rehearsall, or rather a true copie of as much as was presented before her majesties at Kenelworth.

Certaine notes of instruction concerning the making of verse or rime in English.

Whole woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquire.

Place of Publication:

London : Imprinted by Abell Ieffes, dwelling at the Fore Strebete, without Crebeplegate, neere vnto Grubstrbeete, 1587.

Notes:

Not in fact the complete works, but essentially an enlarged edition of: A hundreth sundrie flowres bounde up in one small poesie.

Signatures: [par.]D 2[par].D (-2[par.]4) 3[par.]-4[par.]D 5[par.]A a-k; BD C-P QD S-Z B [par.]D B S B V-Y; A-B B; B A-B C (D)B B DB .

"Hearbes" has separate pagination, with divisional title on B1. "VVeedes" has separate divisional title on P3; pagination is continuous. "The steele glas" has title page on S1. "A briefe rehearsall, or rather a true copie of as much as was presented before her maiesties at Kenelworth .." (caption title) has separate register; "Certaine notes of instruction concerning the making of verse or rime in English", quires (D) and B D.

P. 310 misnumbered 216; p. 317 misnumbered 217; numerous other internal misnumberings.

Variant: title has "Whoole workes"; many pages in variant settings. Another variant (STC 11639, Greg III, p. 1064-6()) has title "The pleasauntest workes ..".

Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1944. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 216:01, 216:02). s1944 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 11638.

Greg, III, p. 1064-6(*).

Related Work:

Gascoigne, George, -1577. Hundreth sundrie flowres bounde up in one small poesie.

OCLC:

61365004