Sions elegies. Wept by Jeremie the prophet: and periphras'd by Fra. Qvarles.

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English
Published/​Created
London. Printed by W. Stansby for Thomas Dewe, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard. 1625.
Description
[59] p. 19 cm.

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    • Signatures: A-G⁴, H². (A1 wanting)
    • Another issue of the 1624 edition, with an added bifolium consisting of a preliminary blank leaf and a title page with woodcut frame and dated 1625. RHT copy retains the 1624 title page.
    • Title surrounded by a woodcut frame signed at lower left 'WR' (i.e. William Rogers, active: ca. 1589-1604). The frame consists of a compartment with a stag's head at top and two naked boys; to the left Minerva with an owl; to right Diana with a quiver; at foot Diana bathing and the transformation of Acteon into a stag. See: R. B. McKerrow and F. S. Ferguson, Title-Page Borders Used in England and Scotland 1485–1640 (1932), number 215.
    • With this are bound his Pentelogia, 1626; Hadassa, 1621; Job militant, 1624.
    Binding note
    RHT copy: Bound in 19th cent. red goatskin, gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, with stamp on front turn-in 'Bound by [William] Matthews.'
    Provenance
    RHT copy: Bookplates: Thomas Jefferson McKee (d. 1899); Henry William Poor (armorial; d. 1915); Walter Thomas Wallace (armorial; d. 1922; his sale, American Art Galleries, March 1920, lot 1109), James Cox Brady (d. 1927).
    References
    ESTC S102348
    Other title(s)
    Bible. English. 1624.
    In
    Multi-title collection including Hadassa, or, The history of Queene Ester : with meditations thereupon, divine and morall and 2 other(s).
    OCLC
    39645208
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