Details

Subject(s)

• Edward II King of England 1284-1327 [Browse]

Binder

Riviere & Son [Browse]

Former owner

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 [Browse]
• Taylor, Robert H., 1908-1985 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Morocco bindings [Browse]

Contained in

• Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, 1280s-1958 (mostly 1800s-1930s)

Compiled/​Created

[16--?].

Linking notes

Forms part of the Robert Taylor Collection (RTC01).

Summary note

Autograph manuscript of the poem on Edward II (581 numbered stanzas). Together with another poem (5 leaves), in a different hand, titled "Vpon ye death of a Pigeon slaine by a fowler on a plowed land in an Aprill morninge," dated 1615.

Notes

A surreptitious edition issued in 1628 has the title "The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second," and later authorized edition issued in 1629 with title "The Historie of Edward the Second," and in 1631 with title "The Historie and Raigne of Edward the Second."

Binding note

Red morocco; in red morocco slipcase by Riviere & Son.

Provenance

Previously from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Ms. 9185.

Other title(s)

Upon ye death of a Pigeon slaine by a fowler on a plowed land in an Aprill morninge

In

Robert H. Taylor collection of English and American literature, 1280s-1950

OCLC

49374173

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