3. Fitz-Geffrey, Charles. Sir | FRANCIS DRAKE | His | Honorable lifes com-|mendation, and his | Tragicall Deathes lamentation. | * *
* | [motto, then woodcuts.]
Impr. 19: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [106], signn. A4, one leaf, B-G8: sign. B 2r beg. See how Apollo: Long Primer English. Contents: sign. A 1r title, within border: A 2r poetical dedication to lady Elizabeth widow of sir F. Drake, signed by the author of the book “Charles Fitz-geffrey”: A 3r “To the Authour,” poem, beg. Once dead, signed “Richard Rous”: A 3v “To C. F.,” poem, beg. When to, signed “Francis Rous”: A 4r “To the Authour,” poem, beg. Englands Vlysses, signed “D. W.”: 5th leafr “In Dracum redivivum; Carmen,” beg. Quis vostrûm, signed “Thomas Michelborne”: B 1r-G 8v, the poem.
Very rare. See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ii. 607. The book was reprinted in the same year with small differences in the text chiefly of spelling, but with considerable changes in the prefatory matter: see below. It was also reprinted in 1819 at the Lee Priory Press, and edited by dr. Grosart in 1881* *
*. The poem is in 7-line stanzas, rhyming ABABBCC. Woodcut ornaments occur at the top and bottom of almost every page, and the book has the appearance of an édition de luxe.
4. Fitz-Geffrey, Charles. Sir | FRANCIS DRAKE | his | Honorable lifes com-|mendation, and his | Tragicall Deathes | lamentation. | * *
* | [motto.] | Newly Printed with additions. | [woodcuts.]
Impr. 19: 1596: (eights) 12o: pp. [112], signn. A-G8: sign. B 2r beg. See how Apollo: Long Primer English. Contents:—sign. A 1r title, within border: A 2r poetical dedication to lady Elizabeth Drake, signed “Charles Fitz-geffrey”: A 2v “To C. F.,” poem, beg. Once dead, signed “Richard Rous”: A 3r “To C. F.,” poem, beg. When to, signed “Francis Rous”: A 3v “To C. F.”, poem, beg. Many greate, signed “Thomas Mychelborne”: A 4r “To the Author,” poem, beg. Englands Vlysses, signed “Diag. Vvh.,” i. e. Degory Whear: A 4v “Ad Dracum,” English poem, beg. Weepe not, signed “Ty. Co.”: A 5r-A 6v, address “To the Reader” signed “C. F.” Broadgates (Oxford), 17 Nov. 1596: A 7r-A 8v, quotations ending “Hæc ferè sunt quæ de Draco nostro apud exoticos poetas legimus”: B 1r-G 8v, the poem.
See preceding article.
Very rare. This issue is almost identical with the first, but the whole text appears to be newly set up, with minute differences.
5. Morlet, Pierre. IANITRIX | siue | INSTITVTIO AD PER-|fectam linguæ Gallicæ | cognitionem ac-|quirendam. | Authore Petro Morleto | Gallo. | [motto: then device.]
Impr. 11: 1596: (eights) 16o: pp. [8] + 92 + [4] : p. 11 beg. Antequam verò: Pica Italic. Contents:—p. (1) title, within a border: (3–7) Epistola dedicatoria to sir Robert Beal, dated Broadgates Hall, “15 Mar. 1596”: (9–13) complimentary poems in Latin and Greek: (14) “Errata”: 1–92 the treatise.
Very rare: a French grammar, in Latin, by Pierre Morlet (?). The dedication states that the author was tutor to sir Robert Beal, having been introduced by David Chytræus.