Parnassi puerperium, or, Some well-wishes to ingenuity : in the translation of six hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial De spectaculis, or of rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most select, in Sir Tho. More : to which is annext a century of heroick epigrams, (sixty whereof concern the twelve cæsars, and the forty remaining, several deserving persons) /
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Printed at London by J. Cottrel, for Tho. Bassett in St. Dunstans Church yard in Fleet-street,
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| Item Description: | First edition. Signatures: A⁴ B-N⁸. "And because variety is delectable, I have subjoyned fourty out of Sir Tho. More, and a century of my own"--To the ingenious reader. Page 9 incorrectly numbered 6. "Libellus de spectaculis ... composed by ... M. Val. Martial", "Certain select epigrams, translated out of ... Sr. Tho. More", and "Heroick epigrams ... By T.P. gent." Each have special t.-p. Commendatory poem in Latin by P. Piscator [Payne Fisher] Cf. Grolier Club, New York. Catalogue of original and early editions of some ... English writers from Wither to Prior. New York, 1905. v. 2, p. 230-231. LMU copy imperfect: frontispiece portrait wanting. |
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| Physical Description: | [8], 184, [6] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., music, port. ; 16 cm. (8vo) |