Ivvenilia : a collection of those poemes which were heretofore imprinted and written by George Wither
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Type of record: Book
Title: Ivvenilia : a collection of those poemes which were heretofore imprinted and written by George Wither
Other titles: Wither's Juvenilia; Iuvenilia; Juvenilia
Classmark: BC Lt d/WIT
Creator(s): Wither, George (1588-1667)
Additional creator(s): Elstracke, Renold (fl. 1590-1630) (Other)
Related people: Elstracke, Renold
Publisher: Printed [by R. Badger] for R. Allott
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1633
Language: English
Size and medium: [50], 484, [280] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/273442
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018444469705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
T.p. engraved by Renold Elstrack (df. Johnson, A.F. Catalogue of engraved and etched English title-pages, p. 17).
The title-page is a cut-down and altered version of that used for the 1st edition, 1622, and is mounted on a blank leaf. It is followed by a leaf with verses to the reader.
Printer's name from STC (2nd ed.).
Most of the poems, or collections of poems, have engraved title pages.
Initial; head- and tailpieces.
Pages [2], [6], [22] and [32] (1st group) and [116], [118], [280], [286], [320], [350], [352], [354], [378] and [446] (2nd group) blank.
Pages 145, 235, 260, 284, 430 and 448-456 incorrectly numbered 147, 135, 160, 285, 130, and 148-156 respectively.
The concluding "stationer's postcript" is initialled I.M.
Contents: Abuses stript and whipt (general title for 2 "books") -- The second book of the vanity, inconstance, weaknesse and presumption of men(1632) -- Certaine epigrams to the Kings most excellent Maiestie -- Prince Henries obsequies; or Mournfull elegies upon his death -- A satyre, written to the Kings most excellent majestie -- Epithalamia, or Nuptiall poems -- The shepheards hunting -- Fidelia (1632) -- A metricall paraphrase upon the Creede (no title-page) -- A metricall paraphrase upon the Lords Prayer -- Wither's motto (title-page engraved [a 1633 version of Elstrack no.20] preceded by verse "explanation" facing) -- Faire-virtue, the mistress of Philarete [etc.].
STC (2nd ed.) 25912.
Additional description
Wanting: ?A leaf following the title, and a final leaf (? blank). In Wither's motto the title leaf apparently replaces A1. Damaged with loss of text: verses to the reader Abuses , preliminary epigrams, second and third pages. With signature Archibald Dickson. 1894 on fly-leaf
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