Ex otio Negotium. Or, Martiall his Epigrams translated : With sundry poems and fancies
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Type of record: Book
Title: Ex otio Negotium. Or, Martiall his Epigrams translated : With sundry poems and fancies
Other titles: Epigrammata
Classmark: BC Lt d/MAR
Creator(s): Martial
Additional creator(s): Fletcher, R (fl. 1650) (Other); Cleveland, John (1613-1658) (Other)
Related people: Fletcher, R; Cleveland, John
Publisher: Printed by T. Mabb, for William Shears and are to be sold at the Bible in Bedford street in Convent Garden
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1656
Language: English
Size and medium: [8], 259 [i.e. 255] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/270760
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017972259705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Title in red and black.
Nearly all the original poems here given as Fletcher's (p. 129-259) were reprinted in an edition of John Cleveland's poems pub. by the same bookseller in 1659, and have appeared in many subsequent editions under his name. In the poems of John Cleveland, annotated and correctly printed for the first time by J.M. Berdan, they are rejected as spurious, cf. p. 249-250.
Signatures: A⁴ B-R (inner form of sig. D reversed; p. 49 onwards wrongly numbered 53 onwards) ⁴.
Wing (2nd ed.) M831.
Additional description
Bound with one other publication in a volume lettered: Martial's Epigrams translated by R. Fletcher. Volume contents: 1. Fletcher, R.: Ex otio negotio, 1656 -- 2. Ireland, T.: Momus elencticus, [1654]
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