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Amanda, a sacrifice to an unknown goddesse, or, A free-will offering of a loving heart to a sweet-heart

Archive Print Item: BC Lt d/HOO

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Type of record: Book

Title: Amanda, a sacrifice to an unknown goddesse, or, A free-will offering of a loving heart to a sweet-heart

Other titles: A free-will offering of a loving heart to a sweet-heart; Miscellanea poetica

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt d/HOO

Creator(s): Hookes, Nicholas (1628-1712)

Additional creator(s): Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) (Other)

Related people: Clifford, Rosamond, d. 1176?; Henry II, King of England, 1133-1189; Drayton, Michael

Publisher: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for Humphrey Tuckey

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1653

Language: English

Size and medium: [22], 191 p., 1 plate

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/270149

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017884969705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

In verse.


"The epistle dedicatory" signed: N. Hookes.


"Miscellanea poetica... cui annectuntur epistolae, Rosamundae Henrico, et Henrici Rosamundae, quas clarissimus olim poëta nostras Michael Draiton armiger nostratibus dedit; carminibus Latinis redditae ..." (p. [91]-191), i.e. Hookes' Latin translation of an excerpt from Drayton's "Englands heroicall epistles" has separate t.p.


Drayton's "Epistle of Rosamund to King Henry the Second" (p. 164-191), with a Latin translation by Hookes, is printed with Latin and English on opposite pages.


Half-title printed vertically.


Page 89-90 (G5) and 97-98 (H1) are blank (H1 signed).


Errata: p. [23].


Wing H2665.

Additional description

Leaf G4 (p. 87-8) supplied in type facsimile original in accompanying envelope. Signature of Arthur Devereux, 1737, on title page. Pencil signature, A[lexander] Dyce and his incorrect note collated perfect on flyleaf facing half-title. Library label of the Authors Club Library, New York Public Library, pasted inside front cover, also green stamp of New York Public Library on verso of title page. Library label of Hannah D. Rabinowitz pasted inside front cover. William Stockhausen sale, 1974 (no marks). Ink corrections, c. 1800?, to text on A4v and 18v and to pagination on several misnumbered pages between 99 and 111 19th century bibliographical note on recto of first flyleaf various 20th century pencil marks and annotations throughout. In slipcase

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