Recreations with the Muses. /
Stirling, William Alexander,Earl of,1567 or 1568-1640.
Cunliffe, Henry,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.502
Dalgleish, Walter,active 1656,former owner.StEdNL: MS.9484
Kinnaston, Francis,Sir,1587-1642,former owner.StEdNL : RB.m.502
Stirling, William Alexander,Earl of,1567 or 1568-1640.Doomes-day.
Stirling, William Alexander,Earl of,1567 or 1568-1640.Jonathan.
Stirling, William Alexander,Earl of,1567 or 1568-1640.Monarchick tragedies.
Stirling, William Alexander,Earl of,1567 or 1568-1640.Paraenesis to the Prince.
London, : Printed by Tho. Harper.,
1637..
"Dooms-day, or, The great day of the Lords iudgement" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. Within this, "Ionathan" has separate dated title page.
A reprinting of the expanded edition of "The monarchick tragedies", "Doomes-day", and "A paraenesis to the Prince", with "Jonathan" added.
In verse.
Signatures: A⁶ (A1 blank) B-X⁶ Y⁸, [A]² B-2D⁶ 2E⁸ (2E8 blank).
The book is bound in early nineteenth-century green morocco with gold-tooled decoration and lettering on the spine; the edges of the leaves are gilt.
The first and last leaves are blank.
This copy contains a fine impression of the rare portrait of Alexander by William Marshall.  On the portrait is the manuscript inscription 'Liber Fra: Kinaston ex dono Nobilissimi Authoris'.  Sir Francis Kinnaston (1587-1642) was an influential English poet of the court of Charles I. The inscription is of some bibliographical importance as it indicates clearly that the portrait was issued with the book. It had been argued that the rarity of the portrait was a consequence of its having been issued separately and Greg was doubtful that it was printed to accompany the book. This copy also contains an eighteenth-century facsimile of the portrait.
ESTC
Greg,
Pforzheimer,
STC (2nd ed.)
Manuscript inscription on the portrait 'Liber Fra: Kinaston ex dono Nobilissimi Authoris'. Sir Francis Kinnaston (1587-1642) was an influential English poet of the court of Charles I. Manuscript note with signature "H.C." on recto of the third front free endpaper. This is most probably the nineteenth-century collector Henry Cunliffe.
Manuscript inscription "Inventar of Buikis perteining to Walter Dalgleische this 3 November 1652.". This is a list of some 160 books, mainly religious and literary, written on the front flyleaves. Dalgleish, was probably factor to the Earl of Dunfermline. His ex-libris, dated 1656, appears on the recto of the first flyleaf.