The essayes of a prentise, in the divine art of poesie
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 251
Publisher: by Thomas Vautroullier
Published: 1585
Place of publication: Imprinted at Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: English Sonnets
Notes: Signatures: *⁴ A-P⁴.

Second issue with Edinburgh correctly spelled and date changed from 1584 to 1585 in imprint, cf. refs. below.

At foot of title: Cum priuilegio regali.

In verse, mostly in Scots dialect.

"I have insert for the filling out of thir vacand pageis, the verie wordis of Plinius upon the Phoenix", sig.P4.

Printer's device on t.p., McKerrow no. 232.

"The Vranie translated", "Ane metaphoricall inuention of a tragedie called Phoenix", "A paraphrasticall translation out of the poete Lucane", "Ane schort treatise", "The CIIII. Psalme" each has divisional title page; register is continuous.

"The Uranie" is a translation of "L'Uranie ou Muse celeste" by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, with French and English on facing pages.

By James I, whose name (Jacobus Sextus) is given in an acrostic on A1r.

STC (2nd ed.). 14374

Pforzheimer, 528

Grolier, Langland to Wither, 150 (note)

Hazlitt, I, 295 (James VI 1b)

Aldis, 197