Englands Parnassus, or, The choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons...
Englands Parnassus, or, The choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons : descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. : whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.
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Imprinted at London : for N.L. C.B. and T.H., 1600.
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Date
1600.
Call Numbers
H 2020/1419
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Language
English
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Physical content
[16], 494 [i.e. 510], [2] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Publication information
Publisher
Imprinted at London : for N.L. C.B. and T.H., 1600.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1600.
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Mitchell Library copy at H 2020/1419: To be issued in Special Collections Area
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Summary
A large poetical dictionary with 2350 items take from the poetical works of approximately fifty Elizabethan writers, including William Shakespeare, and arranged under subject headings.
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Full title
Englands Parnassus, or, The choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons : descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. : whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.
Running title
Choysest flowers of our English poets
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Notes
General note
Dedication signed R.A. [Robert Allott].
N.L. is Nicholas Ling, C.B. is Cuthbert Burby, and T.H. is Thomas Hayes.
Signatures: A-2K⁸ (A1, A2, and 2K8 blank).
Errors in pagination: 23, 105, 130-131, 169, 233, 237, 245, 381, 481, 484, and 510 numbered 21, 109, 132-133, 179, 223, 236, 254, 181, 465, 468, and 494, respectively.
Errata on leaf A8 verso....
Citation / References Note
STC (2nd ed.), 378
English Short Title Catalogue, S100113
Bartlett, 299
Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies, 23a
Grolier. Langland to Wither, 3
Hayward, 38
Pforzheimer, 358 (state A)
McKerrow, R.B. Printers' & Publishers' devices, 301
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H 2020/1419
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74VKV58d8gBO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV58d8gBO
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821.3
MMS ID
991024271019702626
