Certaine learned and elegant workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke / written in his youth and familiar exercise with Sir Philip Sidney ; the seueral names of which workes the following page doth declare.

Certaine learned and elegant workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke / written in his youth and familiar exercise with Sir Philip Sidney ; the seueral names of which workes the following page doth declare.

London : Printed by E.P. for Henry Seyle, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Tygers Head in St. Paules Church-yard, 1633.

[4], 23-82, 298, [2] p. ; 25 cm (8vo)

In verse.

In all known copies of this work, the pagination begins with p. 23, signature d. It is generally believed that the book originally began with "A treatise on religion," said to have been suppressed by order of Archbishop Laud. Grosart thinks the missing pages were prefatory matter containing a life of the author, "with fuller details of his murder than his friends cared to let the world read," as stated in Biographia Britannica. See Memorial -- introd. in Grosart's edition of Brooke's works, 1870, and Grolier Club, Catalogue of ... works ... from Wither to Prior, 1905.

First edition.

Stationers' register: entered 10 November 1632.

Printer identified as Elizabeth Purslowe by STC.

Signatures: pi² d-k⁴ l² D-2R⁶; pi1 and 2R6 are blank.

Many errors in paging.

A treatie of humane learning
An inquisition upon fame and honour
A treatie of warres
The tragedie of Alaham
The tragedie of Mustapha
Caelica, containing CIX sonnets
A letter to an honorable lady, &c.
A letter of trauell.

Akrigg, G. P. V. "The Curious Marginalia of Charles, Second Lord Stanhope." In Joseph Quincy Adams: Memorial Studies, edited by James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby, 785-801. Washington, DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1948.

Curatorial file available.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), S120837
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 12361
Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, III, 1068-1069
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 437

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 12361 copy 1

Brown paneled calf binding, with small Tudor rose and initials 'H. R.' in gilt on covers; remnants of silk ties. Wanting last blank; some leaves badly stained. Provenance: inscription on front fly-leaf: '79 Pembroke sale March 1920'; pencilled Quaritch note, dated 7/3/20; Harmsworth copy

HH100/11

STC 12361 copy 2

Manuscript notes: bibliographical notes on slip pasted to front fly-leaf; manuscript markings. Wanting first and last blanks. T.p. mended and cropped at head, affecting first word of title. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: J. P. Collier [John Payne Collier]; bookplate of Thomas Jefferson McKee (motto 'meum et tuum')

cs60

STC 12361 copy 3

A few manuscript notes in margins. T.p. cropped at head, affecting first word of title; leaf 2I1 repaired at foot, affecting signature mark and catchword. Provenance: inscription and bookplate of I. W. Knightley, Offchurch Bury; W. T. Smedley copy

Smedley

STC 12361 copy 4

Manuscript notes in margins by Charles Stanhope, Baron Stanhope of Harrington; note on front fly-leaf wrongly attributes marginal notes to Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; manuscript markings. Wanting first and last blanks; A2 (t.p.) torn and repaired; copy stained and wormed. Provenance: bookplate of the Duchess of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle; inscription on front fly-leaf: 'This Book came out of the Library at Sion, and was given to Sir William ((at that time) Doctor Burrell) by the late Dutchess of Northumberland'; Stanhope - Northumberland - Burrell - A. C. Swinburne copy

cs826

STC 12361 copy 5

Title leaf cropped with partial loss of first line. Initial and final blanks present. Autograph: Mrs Anne Pepys her book. Manuscript verse: "fame is a Blast / and Honour but a Buble / full of decept / and constant still in trouble / says Anne ffisher". 19th-century armorial bookplate (motto: Prodesse quam conspici"): John Somers, Lord Somers. Early leather binding (goatskin?), rebacked; no paste-downs. Acquired from Swann, 2012-05-16.

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