Poems : with The muses looking-glasse and Amyntas / by Thomas Randolph ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635.

Contributor:

Randolph, Robert, 1612 or 1613-1671.

Marshall, William, active 1617-1650, engraver, attributed name.

Lichfield, Leonard, -1657, printer.

Bowman, Francis, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--17th century.

English poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Blyth, Elizabeth (autograph)

Physical Description:

28 unnumbered pages, 134; pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 87 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 101 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 15 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The second edition enlarged.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Printed by Leonard Lichfield ... for Francis Bowman., 1640.

Notes:

Edited by the author's brother, Robert, who signs the first introductory verse. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: pi1 A-K⁸, ²A-M⁸ N⁴.

"The muses looking-glasse" has a separate dated title page and separate pagination and signatures; "Amyntas, or, The impossible dowry, a pastorall acted before th King and Queene at White-hall" has a separate dated title page and separate pagination, but signatures are continuous with "The muses looking-glasse".

With an additional title page engraved by William Marshall. Cf. ESTC.

Woodcuts: title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640: 1079:2 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: contains Amyntas only; final gathering N wanting; some leaves closely cropped at top margin with occasional loss of running title and page number.

Penn Libraries copy interleaved with blank leaves.

Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on front free endpaper and former owner's autograph in ink on leaf M8v.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 20695

Greg, III, p. 1101

Madan, I, p. 222

Gibson, R.W. Francis Bacon, 554

ESTC, S115622

Contains:

Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635. Muses looking glasse.

Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635. Amyntas.

OCLC:

39805327