Du Bartas, his diuine weekes and workes
Subtitle: with a compleate collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full workes
By: translated and written by [tha]t famous philomusus, Iosuah Syluester
Contributors: Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618, translator; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618; Pibrac, Guy du Faur, seigneur de, 1529-1584; La Noue, Odet de, seigneur de Téligny, -1618; Hudson, Thomas, active 16th century-17th century, translator; Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621
Publisher: Printed by Humphray Lownes
Published: 1621
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1215
Subjects: Poetry; History of Biblical events; Bible
Work titles: Works
Notes: Engraved title page.

Errors in pagination: p. 1156-1161 numbered 1168-1173; numerous individual errors in numbering.

Includes quotations in Latin, and poems in French with English translation.

"The history of Iudith ... / englished by Tho. Hudson": p. [677]-755 includes t.p. dated 1620.

Includes Sylvester's translations of Du Bartas' Semaine, Seconde semaine, Uranie, and other poems; Matthieu's Memorials of mortalitie; Du Faur's Quatrains; La Noue's Paradoxe; also dedications and other French poems; and some of his own poems, including Tobacco battered.

Includes glossaries.

Rare Book copy 2: Calf binding ; folded plate shelved separately in Broadside

STC (2nd ed.) 21653.

Gift; Virginia C. Gildersleeve.

Gift; Francis J. Sypher.