Theophila, or, Loves sacrifice
Subtitle: a divine poem
By: written by E.B. ; several parts thereof set to fit aires by J. Jenkins
Publisher: Printed by R.N., sold by Henry Seile ... and Humphrey Moseley ...
Published: 1652
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Translated from: eng
Number of pages: 268
Other titles: Loves sacrifice; Theophila
Notes: Signatures: [pi]1 A² [para.]-3[para.]² B⁶ (-B6 [= [(e)]1) (c)² (d)1 [(e)]1, C-V⁶ X-Nn².

Includes Latin translations by the author, Alexander Ross and Jeremy Collier, the elder, of Cantos 1, 3 and 7.

The number and position of the plates vary widely. The collation given assumes a frontispiece author-portrait and 9 ill. facing the beginning of Cantos 1-9 engraved by Francis Barlow (Jenkins ill. nos. 1, 3-4, 6-11 and 14); a plate engraved after W. Hollar's "Winter"; a woodcut of Adam and Eve; an engraving of "Astronomy" by Francis Cleyn; a rejected frontispiece or illustrated half-title by Pierre Lombart, reused as an illustration; and 2 leaves of engraved anagrammatic Latin verse (Jenkins ill. nos. 2, 5, 12, 22 and 24-25, respectively). For attributions, cf. Hodnett.

Without the music, "which has not been found" (New Grove).

Wing (2nd ed.) B1879

Jenkins, H. Edward Benlowes, p. 337

Hodnett, E. Francis Barlow, p. 112