Bartas, his deuine weekes and workes
By: translated & dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Iosuah Syluester.
Contributors: Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618.; Pibrac, Guy du Faur, seigneur de, 1529-1584.; La Noue, Odet de, seigneur de Téligny, d. 1618.; Lownes, Humphrey, d. 1629, printer.; Force, Peter, 1790-1868, former owner.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Humfrey Lownes ...
Published: 1605
Place of publication: [At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 757
Subjects: Bible -- History of Biblical events -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.; Creation -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Poetry; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Bartas, his devine weekes and workes; His deuine weekes and workes
Notes: LC copy from the Peter Force collection.
STC (2nd ed.) 21649a
In verse.
The book consists of J. Sylvester's translations of Du Bartas's "La semaine". Fragments and other small works: La Noue's "Paradoxe", Du Faur's "Quatrains"; with other sonnets and dedications.
This issue has no imprint on the t.p.; imprint from T2r t.p.
The parts are continously paged and several have separate title pages, dated 1605.
Signatures: A-2V⁸ 2X⁸(+2X*⁴(-2X*4)) 2Y-3A⁸.
LC copy imperfect: A1 (t.p.) wanting and replaced by typescript; B8 bound in before A2. Two conjunct leaves, one marked "A6" appear to have been taken from a copy of STC (2nd ed.) 21649a.5 (1606), and are bound in between A4 and A5. Leaf B1 differs from the Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints (1965) reprint; B1 recto is blank, except for the signature mark; B1 verso's heading reads: A catalogue of the order of the bookes in this volume.