Virtus rediviva : a panegyrick on our late King Charles the I. &c. of ever blessed memory. : Attended, with severall other pieces from the same pen. : Viz. : I. A theatre of wits : being a collection of apothegems. : II. Faenestrain pectore; or a century of familiar letters. : III. Love's labyrinth : a tragi-comedy. : IV. Fragmenta poetica: or poeticall diversions. : Concluding with a panegyrick on His Sacred Majesties most happy return
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Title: Virtus rediviva : a panegyrick on our late King Charles the I. &c. of ever blessed memory. : Attended, with severall other pieces from the same pen. : Viz. : I. A theatre of wits : being a collection of apothegems. : II. Faenestrain pectore; or a century of familiar letters. : III. Love's labyrinth : a tragi-comedy. : IV. Fragmenta poetica: or poeticall diversions. : Concluding with a panegyrick on His Sacred Majesties most happy return
Other titles: Forde's Panegyrick. London. 1661
Classmark: BC Lt/FOR
Related people: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649; Forde, Thomas; Forde, Thomas; Forde, Thomas; Forde, Thomas; Gomersall, Robert; Leybourn, William; Leybourne, Robert; Grantham, William; Bassett, Thomas
Publisher: Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for William Grantham, at the sign of the Black Bear in St. Pauls Church-yard neer the little North door; and Thomas Basset, in St. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1661
Language: English
Size and medium: [410] p, 1 plate
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/278579
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000799049705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
The words "I. A theatre of wits" to "poetical diversions" are enclosed in brackets on the title page.
With errata on p. 24 at end.
"Virtus rediviva", "A theatre of wits"; "Faenestra in pectore"; "Love's labyrinth" and "Fragmenta poetica" each have separate title pages dated 1660,with author identified as 'Tho.Forde', its own preliminaries and separate pagination; register is continuous.
Only the general title-page includes Bassett in the imprint.
K2 and K3 are conjugate cancels.
Contemporary frontispiece portrait of Charles II, not present in other recorded copies.
Pt.3, the play 'Loves labyrinth' (Woodward & McManaway 589), borrows from Robert Gomersall's 'Sforza, Duke of Milan'.
Also has title: Forde's Panegyrick. London. 1661.
Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) F1550.
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