Collation: A-I12, folios numbered. I 12 blank. Epistle dedicatory to Giulio Pallavicino, signed and dated, Ferrara, May 20, 1583. Personae. At the end, three sonnets to G. Pallavicino (or Pallavicini), one by Gio. Donato Cucchetti, one 'D'Incerto', and one by Lombardi. The present edition appears to be the third, the first having appeared in 1583.
LOVERS.
The Fortunate, the Deceiv'd, and the Unfortunate Lovers. Three Excellent New Novels, Containing Many Pleasant and Delightful Histories. The like never in any Language before. Printed in English and French, For the Satisfaction of the Ingenious. Written by the Wits of both Nations. London, Printed for William Whitwood in Duck-Lane, 1685.
8o. (67⁄8 × 41⁄4). U. 3.
Collation: 2 leaves unsigned, 2 leaves signed A, B-M8; A-I8K2; A-F8G4, each part paged separately. Engraved titlepage with verses facing printed titlepage. Address 'Au Lecteur'. Same in English. Eight novels in each part.
LUCANUS, Marcus Annæus.
Lucans Pharsalia: or the civill Warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the great, and Iulius Cæsar. The whole tenne Bookes, Englished by Thomas May, Esquire. The second Edition, corrected, and the Annotations inlarged by the Author. London, Printed by Aug. Mathewes, for Thomas Iones, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstanes Church-yard. 1631.
8o. (55⁄8 × 31⁄2). Z. 9. 1.
Collation: a8, with engraved titlepage inserted after a 1, A-S8T2, unpaged. Engraved titlepage, signed Fridericus Hulsius, with explanatory verses opposite, followed by regular titlepage. Epistle dedicatory to William, Earl of Devonshire, signed by the translator. Life of Lucan. Commendatory verses from Ben. Ionson and I. Vaughan. Annotations at the end of each of the ten books. Books i-iii appeared in 1626; the complete work, of which the present is the second edition, in 1627. An earlier translation by Sir Arthur Gorges had appeared in 1614, and Marlowe's translation of Book i. as early as 1600.
BM 1026.
LYDGATE, John.