Englands Parnassus, or, The choysest flowers of our moderne poets
Subtitle: with their poeticall comparisons : descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. : whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable
Contributors: N. L. (Nicholas Ling), active 1580-1607, bookseller; Burby, Cuthbert, -1607, bookseller; Hayes, Thomas, -1604?, bookseller; Wyman, William, former owner; Freeling, Francis, Sir, 1764-1836, former owner; Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Publisher: For N[icholas]. L[ing]. C[uthbert]. B[urby]. and T[homas]. H[ayes].
Published: 1600
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
Other titles: Choysest flowers of our moderne poets
Work titles: Englands Parnassus
Notes: Signatures: A-2Ḱı.

Title page vignette; headpieces.

Numerous errors in pagination.

Errata on leaf A8.

Dedication signed "R.A."

Includes index.

Boston Public Library. Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Shakespeariana, page 68

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 358 (state A)

English short title catalogue S100113

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 378

Cataloged 20151105 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early polished calf panelled in blind and gilt. The spine is ruled and stamped in gilt. The armorial bookplate of Francis Freeling is present on the front pastedown and that of the Barton Library is present on the rear. An auctioneer's description from the Halliwell-Phillipps sale of May 21, 1857, is tipped onto the verso of the front free endpaper and an early bibliographic inscription is present on the recto of the following flyleaf. A bibliographic inscription in the hand of T.P. Barton is present on the recto of the second front flyleaf. In this copy A1, A2, and 2K8 (all blanks) are wanting. In addition, A5 ("To the reader") is bound-in after A3, while A6-A8 are bound-in after 2K7. An early autograph reading "William Wyman[?] his book" is present on A5 recto.