Epigrams: divine and moral. /
Urquhart, Thomas,Sir,1611-1660.
Glover, George,approximately 1618-engraver.
London: : Printed by Barnard Alsop. and Thomas Fawcet,,
in the yeare, 1641..
Errata on p. 60 specify that p. 21, l. 19 "at all" should be corrected to "lived at all" and that p. 31, l. 1 "guideth" should be corrected to "giveth". - 3 variants are known. A: p. 21 is uncorrected but p. 31, l. 1 has been corrected to "giveth"; B: p. 21, l. 19 has been corrected (contrary to instruction) to "beene at all" but p. 31 is uncorrected; C: p. 21, l. 19 has been corrected to "beene at all" and p. 31, l. 1 to "giveth".
Includes frontispiece with engraved portrait of the author by G. Glover. In the 1641 and 1646 editions the portrait appears in 3 states. 1: portrait is dated 1641, and is inscribed simply "Sr. Thomas Vrchard Knight"; there is no line of Greek running along the right arm and the word "delineavit" is misspelt "deliniavit". - 2: As 1st state except for extended inscription which reads "Sr Thomas Vrchard Knight of Bray and Udol etc. ...". - 3: portrait dated 1645, extended inscription as in 2nd state, a line of Greek running along right arm and "delineavit" correctly spelt. (See Sotheby's sale cat. March 22 1954, nos. 97-98 & Grolier Catalogue, III, no. 893)
On final page: March 15. 1640. Imprimatur. Johannes Hansley.
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Wing (2nd ed.)
Epigrams, English
England London.