A bibliographical and critical account of the rarest books in the English language (Volume 2) - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1866 Excerpt: ... tbe tract is called "Invectives against the Pope," including a statement of the estimation in which the Scots had long held his Holiness. The conclusion consists of two copies of verses, both signed B. G., but of little or no merit. It is by no means clear that some of these topics may not have been handled by Garter in 1565, and repeated by.him in his " New Year's Gift" of 1579. We have had no means of making a comparison, and we doubt whether a copy of GarterVNew Year's Gift" of 1565 be in existence. In that year was entered at Stationers' Hall, his poem in imitation of A. Brooke's "Romeus and Juliet," which had come out in 1561. Garter entitled his work "The History of Two English Lovers," the incidents of which occurred in 1563. We believe that only a single copy of it is known. Gascoigne, George.--The Whole woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquyre: Newlye compyled into one Volume, that is to say: His Flowers, Hearbes, Weedes, the Fruites of warre, the Comedie called Supposes, the Tragedie of Jocasta, the Steele glasse, the Complaint of Phylomene, the Storie of Ferdinando Jeronimi, and the pleasure at Kenelworth Castle.--London Imprinted by Abell Jeffes &c. 1587. B. L. 4to. 326 leaves. This is the most complete collection of Gascoigne's poems, some of which came out, as is supposed, in 1572, in an edition without date, under the title of "A Hundreth sundrie Flowres bounde up in one small Foesie &c: At London, Imprinted for Richarde Smith," 4to. The name of the author is there only incidentally mentioned; and as that impression was brought out without his knowledge, he published a corrected and enlarged edition in 1675, 4 to. That before us, therefore, is the third edition, and was printed ten years after the death of Gascoigne, which happened on the 11th of ...
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