Bartas his deuine weekes & workes translated & dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie By Iosuah Syluester.

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  • Bartas his deuine weekes & workes translated & dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie By Iosuah Syluester.
  • Second vveeke Fragments, and other small vvorkes of Bartas Profit of imprisonment Tetrastika Quadrains of Guy de Faur, Lord of Pibrac I Posthumus Bartas Posthumus Bartas. The third day of his second weeke Second weeke Fragments, and other small workes of Bartas Bartas his devine weekes & workes
  • Paradoxe que les adversitez sont plus necessaires que les properités. English.
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Imprint
[At London: printed by Humfrey Lownes dwelling on Bred-streete hill at the signe of the Starre, 1605 [i.e. 1606]]
Publication year
1606-1606
ESTC No.
S1703
Grub Street ID
146118
Description
[38], 160, 169-383, [6], 386-387, 390-435, [4], 438-495, [5], 154, [4], 499-660, [29], 674-715, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 4⁰
Note
In verse.

Another issue, with cancel engraved title page lacking imprint, of STC 21649. Imprint taken from T2r title page.

First leaf blank except for signature-mark "A".

"The second vveeke" has separate title page with imprint "At London, printed by Humfrey Lownes dwelling on Bred-streete hill at the signe of the starre. 1605". "Fragments, and other small vvorkes of Bartas" and "The profit of imprisonment. A paradox, vvritten in French by Ode de la Noue, Lord of Teligni .. Translated by Iosuah Syluester", a translation of "Paradoxe que les adversitez sont plus necessaires que les prosperités", each have divisional title page dated 1605. "Tetrastika [Greek]. Or The quadrains of Guy de Faur, Lord of Pibrac. Translated, by Iosuah Syluester", a translation of the "Quatrains", has separate title page with imprint "At London printed by Humfrey Lownes. 1605". Pagination and register are continuous at these points.
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