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epigrams12
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english poetry1
names, english1
names, personal1
proverbs, english1

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Owen, John (1560?-1622)2
Camden, William (1551-1623)1
Eld, George1
Eld, George (1624)1
Elys, Edmund (1634-1707)1
Flecknoe, Richard (1678)1
Harvey, Thomas1
Harvey, Thomas Commoner of Winchester College1
Killigrew, Henry (1613-1700)1
Lober, Valentin1

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M. V. Martialis Epigrammata in amphitheatrvm Caesaris

Martial; Manuzio, Aldo (1515); Naylor, John (1813-1889))

mense Decembri. M.DI. [December 1501]

Signatures: A-Z⁸ &⁸. Printed with 30 long lines to a full page. Printed headlines. Initial spaces with guide-letters. The final leaf is blank.

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Remaines of a greater worke, concerning Britaine, the inhabitants thereof, their languages, names, surnames, empreses, wise speeches, poësies, and epitaphes

Camden, William (1551-1623); Eld, George (1624); Waterson, Simon (fl. 1584-1634)

1605

Dedication signed: M. N. [i.e. [Willia]m [Camde]n]. "Certaine poemes, or poesies, epigrammes, rythmes, and epitaphs" has a separate half-title on p. [236], separate pagination and register. Printe...

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Dia poemata, poetick feet standing upon holy ground, or, Verses on certain texts of Scripture : with epigrams, &c

Elys, Edmund (1634-1707)

1655

"Epigrams, &c." has half title - p. [21]. Attributed to Edmund Elys. Cf. BM. Dedicatory poem on p. [9-12] "To his honest cousin E.E." signed Clem. Elis. One of two issues or editions published i...

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Epigrams of all sorts, made at several times, on several occasions

Flecknoe, Richard (1678)

1671

Special t.p. and text (p. [1]-[20] at end): Epigrams divine and moral, dedicated to Her Majesty. [S.l. : s.n.], 1670. Caption title to this part reads: Divine and moral epigrams. The fourth book. A3...

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Recreation for ingenious head-pieces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in : of epigrams, 700, epitaphs, 200, fancies, a number, fantasticks, abundance : with their addition, multiplication and division

Mennes, Sir John (1599-1671); Smith, James (1605-1667)

1667

Signatures: A-2D. Added t.p., engraved by William Marshall: Witt's recreations refined & augmented with ingenious conceites for the wittie and merrie medicines for the melancholie. See the next page...

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The Latine epigrams of John Owen

Owen, John (1560?-1622); Harvey, Thomas commoner of Winchester College

1677

Pagination irregular. Contains Epigrams of John Owen... a single book. Dedicated to ... Arabella Stuart: p. [71]-105; Epigrams ... three books, two dedicated unto Henry, prince of Wales, one unto Ch...

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Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick. Six books : also the Socratick session, or, The arraignment and conviction, of Julius Scaliger : with other select poems

Sheppard, S

1651

"The Socratick session" and "A mausolean monument" have separate t.p.s. With additional engraved title-page reading: "Epigrams six bookes also the Socratick Session, or the Araignment of Julius Scal...

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Enchiridium epigrammatum latino-anglicum : An epitome of essais, Englished out of Latin, without elucidat explications : containing six classes or centuries of 1. Theologicals, 2. Historicals, 3. Heterogeneals, 4. Bryto-Anglicals, 5. Miscellaneals, 6. Mutuatitials, beside a fardel of 76 fragments

Vilvain, Robert (1575?-1663)

1654

Foliation slightly irregular: number 18 repeated, f.[45] numbered 36, f.[96] numbered 99, ff.[89-212] numbered 68-191. First edition. Leaves printed both sides.

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Epigrams, divine and morall

Urquhart, Sir Thomas (1611-1660)

1646

Errata: p. [60]. Second edition. "Sir Thomas Urchard" = Sir Thomas Urquhart. Imprimatur on last page is dated March 15, 1640 [ie. 1640/1?]. The first edition was dated 1641.

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Parnassi puerperium : or, Some well-wishes to ingenuity : in the translation of six hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial De spectaculis, or Of rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most select, in Sir Tho. More. To which is annext a century of heroick epigrams

Pecke, Thomas (1637-)

1659

Signatures: A⁴, B-N⁸ (N7, advertisements; N8, has "Peck's Epigrams" printed vertically on recto). Page 9 incorrectly numbered 6. "Libellus de spectaculis... composed by ... M. Val. Martial", "...

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A book of new epigrams

Killigrew, Henry (1613-1700)

1695

Attributed to Killigrew by Wing and NUC pre-1956 imprints. Advertisement: [2] p. at end. Errata: prelim. p. [2].

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