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The complete works in prose and verse of Francis Quarles ; now for the first time collected and edited: with memorial-introduction, notes and illustrations, portrait, emblems, facsimiles &c. / by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart ...

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, author.; Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899.; Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of, 1826-1893, former owner.
1880
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Title
The complete works in prose and verse of Francis Quarles ; now for the first time collected and edited: with memorial-introduction, notes and illustrations, portrait, emblems, facsimiles &c. / by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart ...
Created/published
[Edinburgh] : Printed for private circulation [by T. and A. Constable], 1880.
Description
3 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 26 cm
Associated name
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, author.
Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899.
Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of, 1826-1893, former owner.
Series statement
Chertsey worthies' library
Note
Title in red and black, within red line border.

With reproduction of original title-pages.
Contents
I. Prose: Memorial-introduction. Enchyridion. Observations on princes and states. Judgement and mercy, two parts. The loyal convert. The new distemper. The whipper whipt. Notes and illustrations.
II. Verse: A feast for worms. Pentelogia. Hadassa. Job militant. Sion's elegies. Sion's sonets. Historie of Samson. Solomon's recantation. Divine fancies. Notes and illustrations.
III. Verse: Elegiacal poems. Emblems and hieroglyphikes. [Illustrations of Quarles's Emblems by C. Bennett and W. H. Rogers. 40 pl. printed on both sides] The shepheards oracles. Argalus and Parthenia. The virgin widow. Notes and illustrations. Glossarial index, etc.
Series
Chertsey worthies' library.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.

Call number
PR3650.A5 G7
Folger-specific note
Bookplate of the Earl of Derby.