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Robert Earle of Essex his ghost : sent from Elizian, to the nobility, gentry and commvnaltie of England

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Type of record: Book

Title: Robert Earle of Essex his ghost : sent from Elizian, to the nobility, gentry and commvnaltie of England

Other titles: Essex ghost

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt/SCO

Creator(s): Scott, Thomas (1580?-1626)

Additional creator(s): Beale, John (1643) (Other)

Related people: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649; Maria Anna, consort of Ferdinand III, Emperor of Germany, 1606-1646; Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601; Beale, John

Publisher: [By John Beale?]

Publication city: Printed in Paradise [i.e. London

Date(s): 1624

Language: English

Size and medium: [2], 18, [4], 11, [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/282845

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001612119705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

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Anonymous. --By Thomas Scott. --STC.


Signatures: A-D⁴ E².


Leaf C3 is blank.


"A post-script, or, a second part of Robert earle of Essex his ghost..." has a separate dated title page on leaf C4, and separate pagination; register is continuous; second issue, with the second part correctly dated 1624.


A2 recto line 10 ends: "partici-"; a variant issue (STC 22084) A2 recto line 10 ends: "parti-".


Against the proposed marriage between Prince Charles, later King Charles I, to the Infanta of Spain, later Maria Anna, consort to Emperor Ferdinand III.


Also has title: Essex ghost.


Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 22084.

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