La dance machabre or Death's duell
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Type of record: Book
Title: La dance machabre or Death's duell
Other titles: La dance machabre; Death's duell
Classmark: BC Safe/COL
Creator(s): Colman, Walter (1645)
Additional creator(s): Cecil, Thomas (fl. 1630) (Other)
Related people: Cecil, Thomas
Publisher: printed by William Stansby
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1632?]
Language: English
Size and medium: [14], 68, [6] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/311220
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005814039705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
W.C. = Walter Colman.
In verse.
The title page is engraved and signed: T. Cecill (Johnson, "Engraved and etched English title-pages", 19).
Publication date conjectured by STC.
Preliminaries (7 ff., without pagination) consist of: an unsigned leaf, with blank recto, carrying on its verso "The mind of the front."; a second unsigned leaf, with blank verso, carrying on its recto the engraved title (this leaf is followed by a stub, presumably conjugate with it); four leaves, the first and third signed A and A3 respectively, carrying: (1) the dedication, "A la Royne", in French, signed "Colman" (A1r-A2r); (2) two poems, "To the great empresse of our little world" and "The authour to his booke", signed "W. Colman" and "W.C." respectively (A2v-A3v); (3) four poems addressed to the author, signed "John Peashall", "E.H.", "Thomas Veridicus" and "James Sherlie" respectively (A3v-A4v); and lastly a leaf signed [par.], carrying a fifth laudatory poem, signed "John Crompton", on its recto side, and an engraved illustration on its verso. This leaf may be conjugate with the first unsigned leaf.
Three leaves at the end, without pagination (F3-4 and G) carry additional poems.
La dance machabre.
Death's duell.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 5569.
Additional description
Wanting G2 - a blank leaf? Heber - Britwell Court copy. On a fly-leaf at the front is a note of two sales, [John] Brand's, 1807, and [?] Rodwell's, 1809, with prices paid at them for this item (12s. and 9s. respectively), in R. Heber's handwriting. In an early nineteenth-century blue morocco binding
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