Ge.3.14(03)
Thrēnōdia. Siue Pandionium melos, in perpetuam serenissimæ simul ac beatissimæ Principis Annæ nuper Angliæ Reginæ memoriam. Elegies and epitaphs, / by W. S. late servant and chaplaine to her majestie..
Distinctive title: Threnodia. Sive Pandionium melos
London, : Imprinted by Iohn Beale., 1619..
[24] p. ; 20 cm. (4to.)
W.S. = William Slatyer, whose name appears in anagrams on B1r and elsewhere.
In verse, mostly in English, with some Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
First word of title in Greek characters.
Signatures: [A]¹ (=D4) B-D⁴ (-D4).
Running title reads: Threnodia Britannica.
Title-page vignette; head- and tail-pieces; some calligram type layouts.
STC (2nd ed.) 22636
ESTC, S117426
Inscription on second flyleaf: Humphry ffrances 18th fbr 1701. Ejus liber.
Inscription on first flyleaf: Northeswortha probes hunc in sua jura libellum ponit, ut[?] et sibi vult hoc Heliconis operum.
Booklabel recording donation to Eton College by John Reynolds in 1751.
Contemporary dark brown calf; blind tooled triple fillet frame; blind tooled single fillet on board edges; blind tooled double fillet and single fillet on spine, with compartments of hatching at head and tail and further hatching on joints; red morocco spine label with gold tooled triple fillet and title; four raised bands; printers' waste (a small format edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin) as endpapers; red sprinkled edges.
Third of 8 items bound in volume.
Handwritten list of titles in volume on second flyleaf.
Previous shelfmark: Fi.5.2.
Anne, 1574 - 1619 Queen, consort of James I, King of England,
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
England London
eng
B49401