Prolusions
Subtitle: or, Select pieces of antient poetry ; compil'd with great care from their several originals : and offer'd to the publick as specimens of the integrity that should be found in the editions of worthy authors : in three parts ... : with a preface.
Contributors: Capell, Edward, 1713-1781 (comp.); Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, 1536-1608.; Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.; Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.; Barrett, J. B. (bookplate)
Publisher: Printed for J. and R. Tonson ...
Published: 1760
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
Other titles: Edward III (Drama); The nut-brown maid.; Select pieces of antient poetry
Notes: Edited by Edward Capell.  Cf. Halkett & Laing, Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous publications in the English language, 1980.

Colophon: From the press of Dryden Leach ... Oct. 6th, 1759.

First quasi-facsimile transcription of title-pages and first London book to be printed on Whatman's wove paper--C.f. Foxon, D. Thoughts on the history and future of bibliographic description, 1970, p. 10.

MASS copy: With the armorial bookplate of J.B. Barrett; bound in contemporary full calf; tooled in gold and blind.
Table of contents: value: I. The notbrowne mayde; Master Sackvile's Induction; and, Overbury's Wife; value: II.  Edward the Third : a play, thought to be writ by Shakespeare; value: III.  Those excellent didactic poems, intitl'd Nosce teipsum / written by Sir John Davis.