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Poems by Michael Drayto[n] Esquyer. Collected into one volume.

Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, author.; Marshall, William, active 1617-1650, printmaker.; Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
1637
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Title
Poems by Michael Drayto[n] Esquyer. Collected into one volume.
Uniform title
Poems. Selected poems
Edition
Newly corrected M.DC.XXXVII.
Created/published
London : Printed [by R. Young] for Iohn Smethwick, [1637]
Description
[16], 487, [1] p. ; (12mo)
Associated name
Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, author.
Marshall, William, active 1617-1650, printmaker.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Note
The title page is engraved and signed: William Marshall. sculp:.

Printer's name from STC.

The first leaf is blank except for signature mark "A".

"Englands heroicall epistles" and "The legends of Robert, Duke of Normandie. Matilda, the faire. Pierce Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall. Thomas Cromwel, Earle of Essex" have separate dated title pages; pagination and register are continuous.

Signatures: A-X¹².
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
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), 7225
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S109927
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
STC 7225 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs298. Provenance: inscription on A1v: "Tho: Isham"; anonymous armorial bookplate attributed to Isham family of Lamport Hall; Sotheby sale from the 'Library of a Gentleman in the Country', 17 June 1904:112
Call number
STC 7225 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH75/21. Bound in brown sheep, with initials "W. O" stamped in blind on both covers. Provenance: Harmsworth copy