Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. / With an Introduction, Textual Notes, a List of Editions, an Appendix of Translations, and a Portrait.

by Thomas Stanley

‘Privately printed for presents only; afterwards reprinted in 1649 and 1650 for sale. The only other copy of this first edition I can trace was in Isaac Reed’s Sale.’

This 1647 edition has half-titles for Europa, Cupid Crucified, and Venus Vigils; but for Oronta and for Aurora, etc., a title: Oronta, The Cyprian Virgin, by Sig^r Girolamo Preti. London. Printed by F. B. for Humphrey Moseley at the Signe of the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1637.

Aurora, Ismenia. By Don Juan Perez de Montalvan, 1648.

3. Europa, Cupid Crucified, Venus Vigils. With Annotations by Tho: Stanley, Esq. Printed by W. W. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Churchyard. 1649 [2], 61 pp.

4. Aurora, Ismenia, and the Prince, by Don Juan Perez de Montalvan. Oronta the Cyprian Virgin, by Sign^r Girolamo Preti. Tout vient a poinet qui peut attendre. Translated by Thomas Stanley, Esq.; The Second Edition, with additions. London. Printed by W. Wilson for Humphrey Moseley at the Signe of Princes Armes in St. Pauls Churchyard. 1650 [8 pp.], 87 p.

Considered by bibliographers part of succeeding (i.e. Poems of 1651), though the pagination begins anew and the date is 1650.

5. Poems, By Thomas Stanley, Esquire. Quæ mea culpa tamen, nisi si lusisse vocari Culpa potest: nisi culpa potest & amasse, vocari? Printed in the Year 1651. 86 pp.

6. Anacreon, Bion, Moschus: Kisses by Secundus: Cupid Crucified by Ausonius: Venus Vigils. Incerto authore. [Translated by Thomas Stanley.] Printed in the year 1651. 164 pp.

7. Sylvias Park by Theophile, Acanthus Complaint by Tristran, Oronto by Preti, Echo by Marino, Loves Embassy by Boscan, The Solitude by Gongora. [Translated by Thomas Stanley.] Printed in the year 1651. Pp. 167-212. (Paged continuously with Anacreon, Bion, etc.)

8. A Platonick Discourse upon Love. Written in Italian by John Picus Mirandula, in Explication of Sonnet by Hieronimo Benvieni. [Translated by Thomas Stanley.] Printed in the year 1651. Pp. 215-260. (Paged continuously with Sylvias Park, etc.)