Certaine learned and elegant workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke, written in his youth, and familiar exercise with Sir Philip Sidney. : The seuerall names of which workes the following page doth declare.
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| Language: | English |
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London, Printed by E.[lizabeth] P.[urslowe] for Henry Seyle, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Tygers head in St. Paules Church-yard,
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1633.
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| Item Description: | E.P. identified as Elizabeth Purslowe by ESTC. Signatures: fol.: [pi]² d⁴-K⁴ l² D-2R⁴ [chi]². Quires a-c were supressed and cencelled by quire [pi]. --ESTC. The first and final leaves are blank. Partly in verse. In all the known copies of this work the pagination begins with page 23, signature d. It is generally believed that the book originally began with "A treatise on religion" said to have been suppressed by order of Archbishop Laud. Grosart thinks the missing pages were prefatory matter containing a life of the author "with fuller details of his murder than his friends cared to let the world read" as stated in Biographia Britannica. cf. Memorial-introduction in Grosart's edition of Brooke's works, 1870, and Grolier club, Catalogue of ... works ... from Wither to Prior, 1905. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 unnumbered pages, 23-82, 298 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 28 cm. (folio in 4s) |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |