Englands Parnassus, or, The choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons : descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. : whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Imprinted at London : For N.L., C.B. and T.H., 1600.

[16], 494 [i.e. 510], [2] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)

Published anonymously. Dedication signed by the compiler "R.A.", that is, Robert Allott (STC).
'N.L.' is Nicholas Ling; 'C.B.' is Cuthbert Burby, 'T.H.' is Thomas Hayes (STC).
Several similar issues are known. In this issue, the final bookseller's name is abbreviated "T.H.", and the dedicatory sonnet (leaf A4) is inscribed to Mounson and signed "R.A."
P. 510 misnumbered '494'.
Signatures: A-2K⁸; A1,2 and 2K8 are blank.

Copy1 Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library 2016. Shakespeare, Life of an Icon , January 20th - March 27th , 2016. Opening: p.124-125.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100113
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 378
Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies, 23(a)
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 358

Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 378 copy 5
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Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 378 copy 1

cs448. Bound in blue goatskin by F. Bedford. On front free endpaper (in pencil): Calendar no. 283; Shiny safe. Lacking 2K8 (last blank). Provenance: manuscript list of poets on first blank leaves; initials of J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps; signature of William Oldys, 1730 on t.p.; Lewis Theobald - Marsden J. Perry copy

STC 378 copy 2

HH6/14. Bound by W. Pratt in blue goatskin with gilt decoration. Bookdealer's description on front free endpaper. Provenance: bookplate of Thomas Brooke; signature of William Wordsworth, 1790 on t.p.; Sir John Arthur Brooke - Harmsworth copy

STC 378 copy 3

Lacking A1, A2, 2K8 (blanks); possibly a made-up copy? Book dealer's description on front free endpaper. Provenance: inscribed on t.p.: John Sis. My award booke; bookplate of Birket Foster

STC 378 copy 4

cs1967. Bound by Riviere & son in tan calf with elaborate gilt tooling. Lacking 2K8 (blank); A6-A8 misbound after A3. Provenance: bookplate of Robert Hoe; signature of Edmond Malone on third front free endpaper; 'Verses occasioned by reading the foregoing flowers,' signed by John Ward, 1737, bound-in at back; 'Authors fr. whose books this vol. is composed' list on back free endpapers.

STC 378 copy 5

cs544. Lacking A1, A2, 2K8 (blanks) and A8, which is supplied in facsimile. Provenance: manuscript note on A4v; Bookplate of George Chalmers

STC 378 copy 6

Warwick. Lacking A1, A2, 2K8 (blanks); lacking A4, A5. Provenance: bookplate of Warwick Castle Library

STC 378 copy 7

cs509. Lacking A1, A2, 2K8 (blanks); A5 misbound before A4; interleaved and bound in three volumes with occasional manuscript notations. Provenance: Thomas Park copy