The Belides, or, Eulogie of that honourable souldier Captain William Fairefax : slain at Frankenthall in the Palatinate, when it was besieged by Consales de Cordova, in the year 1621
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Type of record: Book
Title: The Belides, or, Eulogie of that honourable souldier Captain William Fairefax : slain at Frankenthall in the Palatinate, when it was besieged by Consales de Cordova, in the year 1621
Classmark: BC Safe/TOO
Creator(s): G. T (1595-1675)
Additional creator(s): Gaywood, Richard (fl.1650-1680) (Other)
Related people: Fairfax, William, d. 1621; Gaywood, Richard
Publisher: printed by W. Godbid
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1660
Language: English
Size and medium: [8], 27, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/311215
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005813839705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
In verse.
The epistle dedicatory signed: G.T.
Frontis. portrait (plate) of William Fairfax signed: R Gaywood fecit 1656.
Leaf A4 printed in red and black.
Indexed in: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), T1893A.
Additional description
Bound with four other publications by Tooke, probably privately issued thus as a nonce-collection, three similar collections being known to exist. MS ownership inscription of Roger and Rachel Conningsbye, 1670, on recto of final blank of the whole volume. MS notes on Tooke, all in the same 19th-century hand, have been inserted at the beginning and end of the volume 2 leaves, on Tooke's wife and house, at the beginning of the fourth item, and facing its p.105 a fourth leaf preceding p.1 of the final item and a smaller note following the title-page of the first item. Bookplate of John Towneley [?(1697-1782)] pasted inside front cover, also printed slip with the name of Revd. Willm. Tooke (the writer of the MS notes?) [?(1744-1820)]. Two sale notices for the volume 1817 and 1819 respectively, with MS notes of date, price etc., also pasted inside front cover a further MS note relating to the 1819 sale written on Towneley's bookplate. Volume contents: 1. The Belides, 1660. -- 2.
The history of Cales passion, 1654. -- 3. The deplorable tragedie of Floris, [1654]. -- 4. Annæ-dicata, [1652?]. 5. The Belides, 1659
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