The arte of English poesie : Contriued into three bookes: the first of poets and poesie, the second of proportion, the third of ornament.
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Renaissance Rhetoric, A.D. 1455-1600.
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| Item Description: | First edition. Numbers 93-100 omitted in paging. Printer's mark on t.-p. "Between sig. N and sig. O in two or three known copies are four cancelled leaves marked j, ij, and iij, and the last unsigned. A perfect copy should have 133 leaves, including the Table, and the portrait of Q. Elizabeth."--Hazlitt's Handbook, page 488. Both George Puttenham and his brother Richard have been credited with the authorship of this work. Such evidence as is procurable points to the elder brother, Richard. cf. Dict. nat. biog. Reproduction of the copy in the Britism Museum. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 4 unnumbered pages, 258 (i.e. 250), 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations portrait ; 20 cm. |