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Lachrimae lachrimarum, or, The distillation of teares shede for the vntymely death of the incomparable prince Panaretus / by Iosuah Syluester.

Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618, author.; Quin, Walter.; Lownes, Humphrey, -1629, printer.
1612
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Title
Lachrimae lachrimarum, or, The distillation of teares shede for the vntymely death of the incomparable prince Panaretus / by Iosuah Syluester.
Created/published
London : Printed by Humfrey Lownes, 1612.
Description
[32] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Associated name
Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618, author.
Quin, Walter.
Lownes, Humphrey, -1629, printer.
Note
Panaretus = Prince Henry Frederick.

In verse.

Includes poems in English, French, Latin, and Italian by Walter Quin.

Imprint from colophon, which is printed in a border of woodcuts on D4r. Sheets A and B are often mixed with other editions, or may exist in reimpositions which have not yet been adequately studied.

Signatures: A-D⁴.

Title page is xylographic (white on black)

Text printed on rectos only; versos are solid black mourning pages with the prince's coat of arms.

Entered to H. Lownes, Jun., 27 November [1612]
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), 23576
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S118065
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
STC 23576
Folger-specific note
Quarter-bound in leather (goatskin?) with marbled paper boards; stained.
Folger accession
2/19/41

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