Fs.3.35
Lachrymæ lachrimaru[m]. or The spirit of teares, distilled for the vn-tymely death of the incomparable prince Panaretus. By Iosuah Syuester.
Other title: Lachrymae lachrimarum
The third edition, with addition of his owne.
[London : printed by Humphrey Lownes, 1612]
[32] p. : ill. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Panaretus = Prince Henry Frederick, son of James VI and I.
Includes poems in English, Latin and Italian by several authors.
Title-page is xylographic (white-line).
Imprint data taken from STC.
"Sundry funeral elegies ... composed by seuerall authors" and "An elegie-&-epistle consolatorie, against immoderate sorrow for th'immature decease of Sr. William Sidney Knight" each have separate dated title page; register is continuous.
In this edition, B3r last line: 'oftentymes.'; C1r catchword: 'Weepe'; for more information, see STC.
Signatures: A-C⁴ D⁴(-D1+"C-D"⁴) E-I⁴. Quire "C-D" cancels original leaf D1.
Printed with mourning pages on versos, bearing royal coat of arms.
Late seventeenth or early eighteenth century half-leather in mid brown calf; boards covered in blue marbled paper; front board bears red morocco label gold tooled with decorative roll frame, title ('Lachrymœ Lachrymarum') and imprint date; blue marbled endpapers.
Copy misbound: C-D3 bound as title-page, in place of A1.
Copy imperfect: lacks A1 and C4.
Copy bears features of STC 23577.5 (B3r last line: 'oftentymes.'; C1r catchword: 'Weepe'), and of STC 23578 (inclusion of "An elegie-&-epistle consolatorie, against immoderate sorrow for th'immature decease of Sr. William Sidney Knight").
Henry Frederick, 1594 - 1612 Prince of Wales,
Elegiac poetry, English Early works to 1800.
Lownes, Humphrey, ? - -1629 printer.
England London
B44228