The most elegant, and elabourate poems of that great court-wit, Mr William Drummond
Subtitle: Whose labours, both in verse and prose, being heretofore so precious to Prince Henry, and to K. Charles, shall live and flourish in all ages whiles there are men to read them, or art & judgment to approve them ...
Publisher: Printed for William Rands ...
Published: 1659
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Notes: Signatures: 1 leaf unsigned, A-O⁸ (unsigned leaf, cancel t.-p.; A₁, canceled t.-p.; A₂ wanting)

Pgaes 134, 143 incorrectly numbered 34, 151, respectively.

Edited by Edward Phillips. "To the reader" signed: E.P.

Commendatory poems by Edward Phillips, John Spottiswood and others.

"Teares on the death of Moeliades", "The wandering muses: or, The river of Forth feasting", and "Speeches to the high and excellent Prince Charles" each have special t.-p., dated 1656.

Cf. Grolier club, New York. Catalogue of original and early editions of some ... English writers from Wither to Prior. New York, 1905. v. 1, p. 244-246.

A reissue, with cancel t.-p., of one of the 1656 issues; this issue has spelling "elaborate" on t.-p.