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Hymen's praeludia, or Loves master-piece. : Being that so much admired romance, entituled Cleopatra, in twelve parts (v.1)

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Type of record: Book

Title: Hymen's praeludia, or Loves master-piece. : Being that so much admired romance, entituled Cleopatra, in twelve parts (v.1)

Other titles: Cléop̂tre

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt q/COS

Creator(s): La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste seigneur de (1663)

Additional creator(s): Loveday, Robert (fl. 1655) (Other); Coles, John (1623-) (Other)

Related people: Loveday, Robert; Coles, John

Publisher: printed by R.D. for A. Mosely [sic] and John Crooke

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1665

Language: English

Size and medium: [6],603 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/270264

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017898679705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

Parts 1-3 translated by Loveday; pt. 4-6 translated by John Coles.


Title-page in red and black, within double line border.


Pagination and signatures are continuous. There are no part-titles. The title-page is a general one covering the work as a whole, and is dated 1665. The dedication is signed: Loveday.


Wing L 122.

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With a few ms. notes (17th century) on endpapers and in margins, and bookplate of F.E. Dinshaw

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