A buckler against the fear of death
Subtitle: or, Pious and profitable observations, meditations, and consolations
By: by E.B.
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 1227:09
Publisher: Printed by Roger Daniel, printer to the University of Cambridge: and are to be sold by M. Spark junior, in the little Old-Baily in London
Published: 1640
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Other titles: Pious and profitable observations, meditations, and consolations.
Notes: Added engr. t.-p. by Thomas Rawlins.

Signatures: A⁴ B-I⁸.

In verse.

Place of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.).

Wrongly attributed (STC 1877) to Edward Benlowes; reissued in 1646 with title "Midnights meditations of death: with pious and profitable observations, and consolations: perused by Francis Quarles a little before his death. Published by E.B."; and in 1649 with title "Death dissected; or, A fort against misfortune in a cordiall, compounded of many pious and profitable meditations on mans mortality. Digested into severall poems, by T.I. [i.e. Thomas Jordan]." On the authorship and various issues of this work see W.H. Buckler in The Library, 4th ser., v. 17, p. 349-53, and H.R. Mead in The Library, 4th ser., v. 21, p. 199-206.

STC (2nd ed.) 4008.5