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Choice poems of several sorts : with three new plays, viz. The obstinate lady, a comedy: Trappolin, suppos'd a prince, a tragi-comedy: The tragedie of Ovid

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Type of record: Book

Title: Choice poems of several sorts : with three new plays, viz. The obstinate lady, a comedy: Trappolin, suppos'd a prince, a tragi-comedy: The tragedie of Ovid

Other titles: Obstinate lady; Trappolin, suppos'd a prince; Tragedie of Ovid; Small poems of divers sorts

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt d/COK

Creator(s): Cokain, Sir Aston (1608-1684)

Publisher: Printed for Francis Kirkman

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1669

Language: English

Size and medium: [14], 507 [i.e. 527], [7], 138, [2] p., 2 plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/268698

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017690439705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

First published in 1658, this collection was originally entitled "Small poems of divers sorts". Intermediate issues with cancel titles appeared in 1658-9 ("A chain of golden poems") and in 1662 ("Poems. With the obstinate lady... [etc.]"). "The tragedie of Ovid" was first added in 1662. In this issue the special titles to "The obstinate lady" and "Trappolin" are cancels, as well as the general title.


The obstinate lady has special t.p. with the imprint: London : Printed by William Godbid, 1658.


Trappolin has special t.p. : Trappolin creduto principe, or, Trappolin, suppos'd a prince : an Italian tragi-comedy / written by Sir Aston Cokain. London : Printed by William Godbid, 1658.


The tragedie of Ovid has special t.p. with the imprint: Printed for Francis Kirkman, 1669 and separate pagination.


Pages 209-256 misnumbered 109-156; 461-480 repeated in numeration; T7-8 blank.


Wing C4895; Greg vol. 3 (Collections), p. 1033-5.

Additional description

Wanting the blank leaf, A1, between the frontispiece and the general title A2. The portrait of Ovid precedes the second A1. Corrections in text and list of Dramatis personae on verso of title to The obstinate lady in supposed autograph of author, according to a note dated July 1873 on verso of front free endpaper. This endpaper also carries on its verso bibliographical notes in the handwriting of an earlier owner (eighteenth century?) and of the late Colonel C.H. Wilkinson, to whom the volume last belonged. Between endpaper and frontispiece are the stubs of two fly-leaves, the second bearing traces of ms. Inserted is a slip carrying further bibliographical information in a different hand, probably nineteenth century. Armorial bookplate (nineteenth century?) with motto Loyal je suis .

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