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Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia, The rape of Helen : a comment thereon, with severall other poems and translations

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Type of record: Book

Title: Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, Forsaken Lydia, The rape of Helen : a comment thereon, with severall other poems and translations

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt d/SHE

Creator(s): Sherburne, Sir Edward (1618-1702)

Additional creator(s): Preti, Girolamo (1582-1626) (Other); Saint-Amant, Marc Antoine Gérard sieur de (1594-1661) (Other); Marino, Giambattista (1569-1625) (Other); Colluthus of Lycopolis (Other)

Related people: Preti, Girolamo; Saint-Amant, Marc Antoine Gérard; Marino, Giambattista; Colluthus

Publisher: Printed by W. Hunt, for Thomas Dring, at the sign of the George, near Cliffords-Inn in Fleetstreet

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1651

Language: English

Size and medium: [3], 169 (i.e. 177) p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/272129

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018155499705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

P.69 wrongly numbered 62, p.93 numbered 89; pp. 95-102 are signed G, G2, G, the 4th leaf unsigned; pagination recommences at 95 and the first leaves are signed G[1]-4.


Frontispiece: four vignettes.


"The rape of Hellen" has special t.-p.


Another issue has title: Poems and translations.


Contents: Salmacis, by Signeur Girolamo Preti, out of Italian. -- The metamorphosis of Lyrian and Sylvia, by St. Amant, out of French. -- Forsaken Lydia, out of the Italian of Cavalier Marino. -- The rape of Hellen, out of the Greek of Coluthus. -- Ludicra. -- Ethica. -- Sacra.


Wing S3223.

Additional description

Dedication leaf (with part-title to Erotica on verso) is conjugate with frontispiece and is bound before the title-page. Blank leaf at end inscribed Henry Eeley (?) is my name and . On recto of frontispiece: Edwd. Herton July 29th 1805 , and (at foot of page) The gift of Edwd. Parry Esqr. Embossed leather label of Peter Murray Hill inside front cover. Part title to Sacra (sig. L1, pp.159-60) bound at end it is conjugate with L6

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