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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

Level: Piece

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.

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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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