4o. (8 × 6), P. 2. 2.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: A-Q4, unpaged. Wanting Q 4 (? blank). Commendatory verses signed 'Parthenius' (A 2), 'Sr W. Alexander' (K1v), 'D. Murray' (M 3). No earlier edition is known, but there is another issue of this one with a different titlepage (same imprint) on which only the author's initials appear.
BM 500.
The most elegant, and elabourate Poems Of that Great Court-wit, Mr William Drummond. Whose Labours, both in Verse and Prose, being heretofore so precious to Prince Henry, and to K. Charles, Shall live and flourish in all Ages whiles there are men to read them, or Art & Judgment to approve them.
Horat. Carm. Lib. 1.
—Multaq; pars mei
Vitabit Libitinam—
London, Printed for William Rands Bookseller, at his House over against the Beare Taverne in Fleetstreet, 1659.
8o. (63⁄8 × 41⁄8). X. 3.
Collation: A-O4, paged. Engraved portrait by R. Gaywood. The titlepage is a cancel pasted over the original one printed by W. H. for the Company of Stationers in 1656. Address to the reader signed E. P. Commendatory verses signed: Edw: Phillips, D. F. (Lat.), (one copy in Lat. unsigned), Iohn Spotswood, Mary Oxlie of Morpet. 'Tears on the Death of Moeliades', 'The Wandering Muses' and 'Speeches to the high and excellent Prince, Charles, ... Delivered from the Pageants the 15th of June, 1633', have each a separate titlepage with the imprint 'London, Printed in the Yeare, 1656.' The 'Poems' were first published in 1616 and the present edition appears to be the third; both the former ones however had several issues.
DU BARTAS, Guillaume de Saluste.
Du Bartas his Deuine Weekes and Workes: With A Complete Collection of all the other most delightfull Workes, Translated and Written by that famous Philomusus Josuah Syluester, Gent. With Additions. London, Printed by Robert Young, and are to bee sold by William Hope, at the signe of the Unicorne in Cornehill, 1641.