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Lachrymæ musarum : the Tears of the Muses: exprest in elegies; written by divers persons of nobility and worth, upon the death of the most hopefull Henry, Lord Hastings

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Type of record: Book

Title: Lachrymæ musarum : the Tears of the Muses: exprest in elegies; written by divers persons of nobility and worth, upon the death of the most hopefull Henry, Lord Hastings

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt d/BRO

Additional creator(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) (Other); Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678) (Other); Brome, Richard (1652) (Other)

Related people: Dryden, John; Marvell, Andrew; Brome, Richard

Publisher: printed by T.N. and are to be sold by John Holden

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1650

Language: English

Size and medium: [2], 98 p., 2 plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/268054

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017601989705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Contains an elegy by Dryden, "Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings" (p. 88-92), his first published work, written when at Westminster School. In this edition two unnumbered leaves are inserted between pp.42 and 43. They contain Marvell's poem, which occupies pp.77-80 in the first edition.


Inserted between A3 and A4 is a folio leaf folded four times on which is printed Hastings' epitaph composed by Philip Kinder: "Pietati sacrum H.S.E. quod mortale fuit I.N.R.I. praestolans epiphaniam, depositum Henrici Baronis Hastings..." [etc.].


Engraved frontispiece.


Wing B4877; Case 102(b).

Additional description

Wanting A1 (blank) and G4 (blank). In this copy the quarter-sheet of four unnumbered and unsigned pages containing Marvell's poem follows E8 (p. 74) instead of C8 (p. 42). As bound, these leaves supply the place of the missing F1 and F2 which were cancelled. Some leaves repaired.

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