Englands Helicon
By: reprinted from the edition of 1600 with additional poems from the edition of 1614
Contributors: B., A; A. B; Bodenham, John, fl. 1600; N. L. fl. 1580-1607; Macdonald, Hugh
Series: The Haslewood books
Publisher: F. Etchells and H. Macdonald
Published: 1925
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Pastoral poetry, English
Notes: A page for page reprint of the first edition of 1600, paging being supplied, and 9 additional poems from the edition of 1614 (p. [203]-218)

With type-facsimile of original t.-p

Signatures of reprint: A3ș, B-Z4ș, Aa-Bb4ș

Introduction signed: Hugh Macdonald

Ascribed, with other Elizabethan miscellanies, to John Bodenham, who probably projected the work and befriended the editor, the "A. B." (as yet unidentified) who signed the dedication and prefatory sonnet in the first edition. More recently ascribed to Nicholas Ling. cf. Introd. & Dict. nat. biog

"Of this edition, printed in England at the Shakespeare Head press on Kentish all-rag paper, 900 numbered copies have been issued ..."

Special Collection's copy no. 747.