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Du Bartas his deuine Weekes and workes

Uniform Title
Sepmaine. English
Title
Du Bartas his deuine Weekes and workes translated and dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Josuah Syluester.
Edition
Now thirdly corr. & augm.
Published
London, Humfrey Lownes, 1611.
Physical Description
17 p.l., 819 [i.e. 857], [44], 87, [7] p. illus. 18 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Hfb9 49v: Second issue. Signature 2Z7 misbound between t.p. and A1; [4] p. between p. 697 and 698 not numbered; many catchwords and signatures bled.
BEIN 1978 1493: Engr. t.p. pasted together with the following leaf.
BEIN 1978 1493: Imperfect: t.p. bled; p. 3-14 wanting; p. 241-252 in duplicate; last leaf with colophon wanting.
Notes
Engraved t.p., title within architectural border.
Colophon: 1611 [printer's device] At London Imprinted by H.L. and are to be sould by Arthur Iohnson at the signe of the White Horse, neere the great North doore of Paules Church.
Includes Sylvester's translations of Du Bartas "Semaine" and "Second semaine" and several minor poems; of La Noue's "Paradoxe", and of Du Faur's "Quatrains", also dedications and poems by the translator and others. The parts are continuously paged, and some have separate t.ps. Du Bartas' "Historie of Ivdith", translated by T. Hudson, appended, has separate t.p. dated 1611, and pagination.
Signatures: [*]1 A-3Q⁸ 3R⁴ (3R4 wanting)
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 21651
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