Author:

Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste seigneur 1544-1590  Search this

Sylvester, Josuah 1563-1618  Search this

Pibrac, Guy du Faur seigneur de 1529-1584  Search this

La Noue, Odet de seigneur de Téligny d. 1618  Search this

Hole, William -1624  Search this

Former owner:

Goodwin, George DSI  Search this

Smyth, William DSI  Search this

Kenyon, John DSI  Search this

Goodwin, Richard DSI  Search this

Talbot, George DSI  Search this

Smithson, James 1765-1829 DSI  Search this

De Peyster, J. Watts (John Watts) 1821-1907 DSI  Search this

Physical description:

[32], 697, [3], 705-739, [2], 740-819 [i.e. 825], [47], 87, [9] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm. (4to)

Type:

Early works to 1800

Poetry

Date:

1613

[1613]

Notes:

Date of publication from colophon.

Separate title page, sig. 3K6r, reads: The history of Judith, in forme of a poeme, penned in French, by ... G. Salust. Lord of Bartas. Englished by Theo. Hudson ... 1613.

Includes Sylvester's translations of Du Bartas' "Semaine" and "Seconde semaine" and several minor poems; of La Noue's "Paradoxe," and of Du Faur's "Quatrains"; also dedications and poems by the translator and others. The parts are continuously paged, and some have separate title pages. Du Bartas' "Historie of Judith, " translated by T. Hudson, appended, has separate title page and pagination.

Engraved title page; title within architectural border; signed: W. Hole sculp:.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials; side-notes.

Signatures: A-3Q⁸ 3R⁴.

STC (2nd ed.) 21652

Topic:

Poetry  Search this

Creation  Search this

Call number:

PQ1616.E2 S8 1613

PQ1616.E2S8 1613

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_130459