Skip to main content

Aurora : Containing the first fancies of the authors youth

Archive Print part: BC Lt/ALE

Details

Type of record: Book

Title: Aurora : Containing the first fancies of the authors youth

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC Lt/ALE

Publisher: Printed by Richard Field for Edward Blount

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1604

Language: English

Size and medium: [94] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/268032

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017601269705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

A sonnet sequence.


Signatures: A-M4.


The last leaf is blank.


Probably issued as part of: The monarchick tragedies: London, 1604.


STC (2nd ed.) 337.

Additional description

Bound with 3 other publications by Alexander as a nonce collection of his works. Volume contents: 1. Aurora, 1604. -- 2. The monarchick tragedies, part 2, 1607. -- 3. The monarchick tragedies, part 1, 1604? or 1607?. -- 4. A paraenesis to the Prince, 1604. The volume appears to consist of imperfect copies of the firt issue, 2 plays, part 1 and part 2, 1607, bound in reverse order and his Paraenesis to the Prince, 1604 in a 19th-century morocco binding with the armorial stamps of the Duke of Sutherland (? George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd duke, 1786-1861). Water-staining indicates that the collection was originally bound with the Paraenesis first and the Aurora second. A 19th-century inscription on the first free endpaper to the volume records its having been brought from the Duke of Sutherland, and rebound in London in 1849

Access and usage

Access

Access to this material is unrestricted.

Collection hierarchy

Visitor Basket

Ref No. Item Ref Title