Shelfmark
Ge.6.10
Title
Examen poeticum duplex: sive Musarum Anglicanarum delectus alter; cui subjicitur Epigrammatum seu Poematum minorum specimen novum..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Musarum Anglicanarum delectus alter
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini: : Impensis Ric. Wellington, ad insigne chelyos in Cœmeterio Divi Pauli., MDCXCVIII. [1698]
Physical description
[16], 219, [9], iii, [1], 56 p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Note
With half-title.
Note
Title page in red and black.
Note
Title set within a double-ruled border.
Note
Title page is A3.
Note
"Epigrammatum seu poematum minorum specimen novum." (divisional title page) has separate pagination and register.
Note
Signatures: A-P⁸ pi⁴ ²A-C⁸ ²D⁴.
Note
Leaves P7 and P8 are blank.
Note
With an initial advertisement leaf.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R680
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), E3708
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary calf; boards have two concentric double-blind-fillet frames; inner frame with ornaments at outer corners; four raised bands; red goatskin spine label with gilt title in double-gold-fillet frame: "Musæ Angli"; board edges tooled in gold; text block edges sprinkled red.
Copy-specific note
Advertisement leaf bound at end of text. Leaves pi2 and pi1 misbound between ²D1-D2; leaves pi3 and pi4 misbound between ²D3-D4.
Subject
English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700.
Added entry--name
Wellington, Richard, ? - 1715 publisher.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B48645