Poems
Subtitle: With Additions, never before Printed ....
By: By J.C. [John Cleveland] :
Contributors: Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.
Publisher: [William Shears]
Published: 1654
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Other titles: Character of a Diurnall-Maker.
Notes: Final leaf is blank; page 91 misnumbered '61'. The bookseller, William Shears, 'had shops in various parts of London between 1625 and 1662, and published many of the poets of the period, including Brome, Phineas Fletcher, Thomas May, and Francis Quarles'[Morris]. 'From ... 1651 to  ... 1669 seventeen separate editions in a period of eighteen years testify to the continuing popularity of Cleveland's work, and they show that even nine years after the Restoration the satires of the Civil War still had theirreaders' [Morris]

Printer's device of Bible with clasps and initials 'W.S' [i.e. William Shears], on title-page; separate, sectional title-page for: 'A Character of a Diurnal-Maker. By J.C. London, Printed in the Yeare, 1654'; with caption title: 'The Character of a Diurnall-Maker'.

Wing C4689A; Morris 16 P7.
Table of contents: value: Engraved portrait of the author, facing title-page, bears legend:'Vera et viva Effigies Johannis Cleeveland'; following the title-page and preceding the main text is 'A brief Table of the Poems and Characters. As also of Letters received, and Answers thereunto'. Following page 107v a title-page for 'A Character of a Diurnal-Maker. By J.C.', with text on pages 1 to 12; this work is not mentioned in the Table of Contents.