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Shelfmark

Fs.3.35

Author

Title

Lachrymæ lachrimaru[m]. or The spirit of teares, distilled for the vn-tymely death of the incomparable prince Panaretus. By Iosuah Syuester.

Varying form of title

Other title: Lachrymae lachrimarum

Edition

The third edition, with addition of his owne.

Publication, distribution, etc.

[London : printed by Humphrey Lownes, 1612]

Physical description

[32] p. : ill. ; 18 cm. (4to)

Note

Panaretus = Prince Henry Frederick, son of James VI and I.

Note

Includes poems in English, Latin and Italian by several authors.

Note

Title-page is xylographic (white-line).

Note

Imprint data taken from STC.

Note

"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.

Note

In this edition, B3r last line: 'oftentymes.'; C1r catchword: 'Weepe'; for more information, see STC.

Note

Signatures: A-C⁴ D⁴(-D1+"C-D"⁴) E-I⁴. Quire "C-D" cancels original leaf D1.

Note

Printed with mourning pages on versos, bearing royal coat of arms.

Binding

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-specific note

Copy misbound: C-D3 bound as title-page, in place of A1.

Copy-specific note

Copy imperfect: lacks A1 and C4.

Copy-specific note

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").

Subject

Henry Frederick, 1594 - 1612 Prince of Wales,

Subject

Subject

Elegiac poetry, English Early works to 1800.

Added entry--name

Added entry--place

England London

Identifier

B44228
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