Collation: portrait prefixed, A4a2B6C-2E4, paged. Wanting A4 containing John Reynolds' verses, and 2E 4 (? blank). Engraved portrait signed Wil Hole, with Latin verses subscribed, facing title. The plate had already been used in the 'Poems' of 1619. Dedication to the Gentlemen of Great Britain, signed. Commendatory verses by J. Vaughan, J. Reynolds, and Ben Jonson. First edition.
BM 498.
Englan¦ds¦ Heroic¦all¦ Epistles. Newly Correcte¦d.¦ With Idea. By Michaell Drayton. At London, Printed by I. R. for N. L. and are to be sold at his shop in Fleetstreete, neere Saint Dunstones Church. 1602.
8o. (57⁄8 × 4). Z. 2.
Collation: A4B-Q8, unpaged. Address to the reader, signed M.D. Commendatory verses signed: E. Sc. Gent., Thomas Hassell, William Alexander. The 'Epistles' are divided into groups to which are prefixed dedicatory epistles to Lucy Countess of Bedford, Lady Anne Harington, Sir Walter Acton, Edward Earl of Bedford, Iames Huish, Elizabeth Tanfelde, Sir Thomas Munson, Sir Henry Goodere, Henry Lucas, and Lady Frauncis Goodere, each signed. 'Idea' begins on O 7V. The first sonnet should belong to the 'Epistles', of which it contains a list, the second and third are prefatory, addressed to the reader. The first edition appeared in 1597; the present is the fifth. 'Idea' which had appeared separately was first added to the third edition, 1599.
BM 499.
Mortimeriados. The lamentable ciuell warres of Edward the second and the Barrons. At London, Printed by I. R. for Mathew Lownes, and are to bee solde at his shop in S. Dunstons Churchyard. 1596.
4o. (71⁄4 × 51⁄4). R. 18. 3.
Collation: A-S4T2, unpaged. Wanting A 4 (? blank as in BM copy). Dedicatory verses to Lucie Countess of Bedford, signed Michaell Drayton. Verses to the same, signed E. B. This is the original form of 'The Barons' Wars' (1603). There was another issue of this edition, differing in the titlepage alone, which has Humfry Lownes as bookseller and is without date.
Sinker 472. BM 498.
Poems: by Michael Drayton esquire, Newly Corrected by the Author. London Printed by W. Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to bee sold at his Shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, vnder the Diall. 1613.
8o. (61⁄2 × 4). Y. 2.