Greenes farevvell to follie. : Sent to courtiers and scholers, as a president to warne them from the vaine delights, that drawes youth on to repentance
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Type of record: Book
Title: Greenes farevvell to follie. : Sent to courtiers and scholers, as a president to warne them from the vaine delights, that drawes youth on to repentance
Other titles: Farewell to follie; Greene his farewell to follies; Greenes farewell to follie
Classmark: Blavatnik Honresfield Library BHL 06
Creator(s): Greene, Robert (1558?-1592)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, Francis (1799-1883) (Bookbinder); Paine, Cornelius (1809-1890) (Former owner); Dalrymple, Arthur (1868) (Former owner); Utterson, Edward Vernon (1856) (Former owner); Graham, Thomas Douglas Cunningham (1816-1884) (Former owner); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed by W. White dwelling in Cow-lane
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1617
Language: English
Size and medium: 88 unnumbered pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731303
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019909966305181
Description
Black letter [i.e. Gothic script].
Running title reads: Greene his farewell to follie.
Signatures A-H4, J4-L3.
Interspersed with poetry.
Indexed in: ESTC,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 06: excerpt from bookseller's catalogue pasted onto front flyleaf, no. 77: Bindley's copy sold for £6. 6s.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 06: nineteenth-century full mottled calf, gold tooled on cover, spine, edges, red marbled endpapers, gilt fore-edges, bound by Francis Bedford (1799-1883).
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 06: Given from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the National Libraries, 2022. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Cornelius Paine [i.e. Cornelius Paine (1809-1890), whose library was sold by Sotheby's on 16 February and the following 7 days in 1891, see also Franks Bequest 22583]. Nineteenth-century MS. inscription on front flyleaf: Cornelius Paine. Printed at top of front flyleaf: Bound by F. Bedford. MS. annotations by bookseller[s] on front flyleaves, also possible price 7/7/-. Nineteenth-century seal armorial bookplate in gold on vellum on rear pastedown: Edward Vernon Utterson [i.e. Edward Vernon Utterson (1775/6-1856), FSA, lawyer, collector, and draftsman, see Franks 30199. This item was lot 907 in auction of Utterson's collection on 19 April 1852]. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on rear flyleaf: Arthur Dalrymple [i.e. probably Arthur Dalrymple, FSA (d. 1868), solicitor, Clerk of the Peace,
Norwich, see Franks 7861]. Nineteenth-century oval armorial shield bookplate in gold on vellum?: T. D. C. Graham [i.e. Thomas Douglas Cunningham Graham (1816-1884), collector, see Franks 12476 and 12477].
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