Shelfmark
Ci.2.6.20
Author
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.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Imprinted at London : For N[icholas]. L[ing]. C[uthbert]. B[urby]. and T[homas]. H[ayes]., 1600.
Physical description
[16], 494 [i.e. 510], [2]p ; 8vo.
Note
The editor's dedicatory sonnet is inscribed to Sir Thomas Mounson and signed: R.A., i.e. Robert Albott.
Note
The first two leaves and the last leaf are blank.
Note
P. 510 misnumbered 494.
Note
Signatures: A-2K8.
Note
"N. L." = N. Ling, "C. B." = C. Burby, and "T. H." = T. Hayes.
Note
Ms. list of authors (cropped) on flyleaves (Du Pré's hand).
Note
Ms. annotations in text, some cropped (possibly more than one hand, but probably not Du Pré's).
Citation/references note
ESTC S100113; STC (2nd ed.), 378; Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies, 23(a); Pforzheimer, 358
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1946. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English Books, 1475-1640; 276:08).
Provenance
Storer bequest label dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Provenance
Signature: "B. Wm. Du Pré", with date 1760.
Binding
18th century gold-tooled, polished calf.
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--name
N.L. (Nicholas Ling), fl. 1580 - 1607 publisher.
Added entry--name
Burby, Cuthbert, ? - d. 1607 publisher.
Added entry--name
Hayes, Thomas, fl. 1617 - 1637 publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B14280