Collation: *42*2A-K4a-c4d2, paged A-K only. Epistle dedicatory from the author to Prince Charles. Address to the reader, signed C. B. M. (= Charles Butler Magd.) and dated, Wotton, Sept. 1, 1633. Another address. Commendatory verses in Latin signed S. W. Sheets a-d contain the 'Index of Woords' (homonyms) mentioned on the titlepage. Printer's address to the reader at end. Prefixed is a sheet (*4) containing cancelled preliminary matter, namely titlepage as above but without the peculiarities of orthography and dated 1633, the first address to the reader, also in ordinary orthography, and S. W.'s verses. Some copies only have the earlier titlepage, some only the later, but the two issues differ in the preliminary matter alone.
BM 299.
CAPELL, Edward.
Prolusions; or, select Pieces of antient Poetry,—compil'd with great Care from their several Originals, and offer'd to the Publick as Specimens of the Integrity that should be found in the Editions of worthy Authors,—in three Parts; containing, I. The notbrowne Mayde; Master Sackvile's Induction; and, Overbury's Wife: II. Edward the third, a Play, thought to be writ by Shakespeare: III. Those excellent didactic Poems, intitl'd—Nosce teipsum, written by Sir John Davis; with a Preface.
Impius hæc tam culta novalia miles habebit?
Barbarus has segetes?
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand. 1760. [Colophon] From the Press of Dryden Leach, in Crane-court, Fleet-street. Oct. 6th. 1759.
8o. (7 × 41⁄2). S. 39.
Dedication to Lord Willoughby of Parham, subscribed "the Editor" (i.e. Edward Capell).
CAXTON, William.
The Ancient Historie of the destruction of Troy.... 1617. See Le Fèvre, Raoul.