Du Bartas his Diuine weekes and workes
Subtitle: with a compleate collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full workes translated and written by yt famous Philomusus, Iosuah Sylvester Gent
Contributors: Dalen, Cornelius van, engraver; Elstracke, Renold, active 1590-1630, engraver; Hudson, Thomas, active 16th century-17th century; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618; La Noue, Odet de, seigneur de Téligny, -1618; Pibrac, Guy du Faur, seigneur de, 1529-1584; Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590; Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591; Young, Robert, -1643, printer
Publisher: Printed by Robert Young with additions
Published: 1641
Place of publication: |a London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 670
Subjects: French poetry; Translations into English; Modern Poetry; Poetry; Early works to 1800; Creation
Other titles: Du Bartas his Divine weekes and workes; Diuine weekes and workes; Divine weekes and workes
Work titles: Works
Notes: Engraved t.p., mounted; front. (port.) also mounted.

Includes Sylvester's translations of Du Bartas "Semaine" and "Second semaine" and several minor poems; of La Noue's "Paradoxe", and of Du Faur's "Quatrains"; "micro-cosmo-graphia: the little world's description, from Latin of Henry Smith; also dedications and poems by the translator and others. The parts are continuously paged, and some have separate t.ps. Du Bartas' "Historie of Ivdith", translated by T. Hudson, has special t.p., dated 1632.

Rare Book copy 1: Many pages wanting: title page, frontispiece portrait, pages 281-290, 403-410, 453-478, 561-562, 567-568, 573-578, 583-584, 589-590, 593-594, 599-606, 619-620, 629-642, 653-658, most of pages 669-670.

Rare Book copy 1: Most of inserted leaf wanting; tipped in between pages 618 and 621.

Rare Book copy 2: Some pages wanting: Engraved title page and frontispiece portrait (replaced by pencil-drawn complete copies); pages 617-618; inserted leaf.

Rare Book copy 2: Autograph of former owner James Tod, 1809.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), R22142

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), D2405

Hazlitt, II 186

Hazlitt, Handbook 171