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Endimion & Phoebe, Ideas Latmus

by: Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631

Publication date: 1925

Topics: English poetry -- 16th century, Endymion (Greek mythology) -- Poetry, Poésie anglaise -- 16e siècle, Endymion (Mythologie grecque) -- Poésie, Endymion (Greek mythology), English poetry

Publisher: Stratford-upon-Avon, Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, & published for the Press by B. Blackwell, Oxford

Collection: bplhoughton; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

2 preliminary leaves, vii-xviii pages, reprint: 3 preliminary leaves, 9-52 pages 23 cm

"Of this edition, printed in England ... 950 copies are issued for sale, and 100 numbered copies on Arnold's unbleached hand-made paper, of which this is number 19"--Page vi

A page for page reprint in modern type of the edition of 1595, owned by Mr. W.A. White of New York. The t.p. and first leaf lacking in Mr. White's copy were supplied from the other extant copy in the library of Westminster Abbey -- p. xviii

With reproduction of original t.p.: Endimion and Phœbe. Ideas Latmus. Phœbus erit nostri princeps, et carminis Author. [Ornament] At London, [Ornament] Printed by James Roberts for John Busbie [1595?]

"For his Poems Lyrick and pastorall, 1606, Drayton wrote a new version of the Endimion story, which he named The Man in the Moone. This poem borrows only a few lines from Endimion and Phoebe."--Introd., p. xvi

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