Loues martyr, or, Rosalins complaint : allegorically shadowing the truth of loue, in the constant fate of the phoenix and turtle, a poeme enterlaced with much varietie and raritie / now first translated out of the venerable Italian Torquato Caeliano, by Robert Chester ; with the true legend of famous King Arthur, the last of the nine worthies, being the first essay of a new Brytish poet, collected out of diuerse authenticall records ; to these are added some new compositions, of seuerall moderne writers whose names are subscribed to their seuerall workes, vpon the first subiect: viz. the phoenix and turtle.
Chester, Robert, active approximately 1586-1604, author.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.; Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.; Marston, John, 1575?-1634.; Chester, Robert, 1566-1640, attributed name.; Field, Richard, 1561-1616, printer.; Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632, bookseller.; Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner.; Miller, William Henry, 1789-1848, former owner.; Riviere, Robert, ǂd 1808-1882, binder.; Britwell Library, former owner.
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Loues martyr, or, Rosalins complaint : allegorically shadowing the truth of loue, in the constant fate of the phoenix and turtle, a poeme enterlaced with much varietie and raritie / now first translated out of the venerable Italian Torquato Caeliano, by Robert Chester ; with the true legend of famous King Arthur, the last of the nine worthies, being the first essay of a new Brytish poet, collected out of diuerse authenticall records ; to these are added some new compositions, of seuerall moderne writers whose names are subscribed to their seuerall workes, vpon the first subiect: viz. the phoenix and turtle.
Uniform title
Love's martyr
Created/published
London : Imprinted for E.B., 1601.
Description
[6], 144, 141-183, [1] p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Chester, Robert, active approximately 1586-1604, author.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.
Marston, John, 1575?-1634.
Chester, Robert, 1566-1640, attributed name.
Field, Richard, 1561-1616, printer.
Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632, bookseller.
Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner.
Miller, William Henry, 1789-1848, former owner.
Riviere, Robert, ǂd 1808-1882, binder.
Britwell Library, former owner.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.
Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.
Marston, John, 1575?-1634.
Chester, Robert, 1566-1640, attributed name.
Field, Richard, 1561-1616, printer.
Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632, bookseller.
Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804, former owner.
Miller, William Henry, 1789-1848, former owner.
Riviere, Robert, ǂd 1808-1882, binder.
Britwell Library, former owner.
Note
In verse.
In fact written by Robert Chester, active approximately 1586-1604. Formerly erroneously attributed to Robert Chester, 1566-1640, of Royston, Hertfordshire by A. Grosart and others. See Boris Borukhov, "Was the author of Love's martyr Chester of Royston?" Notes and queries n.s. 56 (2009): 77-81, and Charles R. Forker, Chester, Robert (fl. c.1586 1604) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5238, accessed 28 Sept 2012]
Printed by Richard Field for Edward Blount (STC).
"Hereafter follovv diuerse poeticall essaies on the former subiect; viz: the turtle and phoenix" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. It contains "The phoenix and the turtle" and "Threnos" by William Shakespeare, and poems by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston.
Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-2A⁴ 2B².
In fact written by Robert Chester, active approximately 1586-1604. Formerly erroneously attributed to Robert Chester, 1566-1640, of Royston, Hertfordshire by A. Grosart and others. See Boris Borukhov, "Was the author of Love's martyr Chester of Royston?" Notes and queries n.s. 56 (2009): 77-81, and Charles R. Forker, Chester, Robert (fl. c.1586 1604) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5238, accessed 28 Sept 2012]
Printed by Richard Field for Edward Blount (STC).
"Hereafter follovv diuerse poeticall essaies on the former subiect; viz: the turtle and phoenix" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. It contains "The phoenix and the turtle" and "Threnos" by William Shakespeare, and poems by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston.
Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-2A⁴ 2B².
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2016.Shakespeare, Life of an Icon. January 20th-March 27th ,2016.Opening:sig.Aa .
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 5119
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106438
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106438
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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STC 5119
Folger-specific note
Bound in leather (citron goatskin) inboard binding, with the arms and initials of William Henry Miller; stamp: Bound by Riviere. Preliminary and end leaves stained and repaired. A few faint manuscript notes. Purchased Sotheby's 6 Feb. 1922, no. 147. Provenance: on verso of t.p.: Iane lloyd; Britwell Court copy; possibly Roxburghe - Sykes copy