The Poeticall Essayes of Sam. Danyel..
Daniel, Samuel,1562-1619.
London : printed by P. Short for Simon Waterson,
1599.
The first leaf is blank.
"The ciuill wars of England, betweene the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke" (books 1-5), "Musophilus", "A letter from Octauia to Marcus Antonius", and "The tragedie of Cleopatra" each have separate dated title pages and registers; "The complaint of Rosamond" begins on 2B1.
"The civill wars" is a reissue of "The first fowre bookes of the civile warres between the two houses of Lancaster and York", 1595, with book 5 in either setting (see STC 6244 and 6244.3) or lacking. The original 1595 title page is cancelled by one dated 1599, which was printed as F4 of part 2. Many copies have the cancellandum title, in one or the other state, either with or without the cancel. [2F]1 is an errata leaf, usually lacking.
Signatures: [A]⁴ (-A4) chi¹ (=²F4)) B-2E⁴; [A]² B-F⁴ (-F4); [A]² B-C⁴ D²; A-K⁴; 2B-2F⁴ ""G""².
STC (2nd ed.)
Greg
Pforzheimer
Pforzheimer
ESTC