Signatures: Áþ B-2Ḱœ 2Ĺþ.

Title within ornamental border of type ornaments; title page vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.

There are three states of leaf B1. In the first state the first line reads: "The sacred armies and the godly knight". In the second state a cancel slip, pasted over the first stanza, contains an altered version, the first line of which reads: "I sing the warre made in the Holy land". In the third state, leaf B1 is cancelled, the substitute leaf, beside an altered "Argument" contains a third form of the first stanza, of which the first line reads: "I sing the sacred armies and the knight."

The copy described herein contains the "first state" of B1 and the "first state" of 207.

Pages 46 and 82 misnumbered 48 and 84 respectively.

Page 207 is known to exist in two states: in the first state, the page is misnumbered 193; in the second state, the page is numbered correctly.

English short title catalogue, entry S117565

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), entry 23698

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, entry 1001

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century diced Russia panelled in gilt and blind shell tools and rebacked in brown morocco with early compartments retained. All text block edges decorated with pulled paste. The armorial bookplate of Abram E. Cutter is present on the front pastedown. The front free endpaper and front flyleaf contain early bibliographical inscriptions and the autograph of Edward White, dated 1824, is present on the latter. Three different booksellers' descriptions, depicting various copies, are tipped onto the second front flyleaf. An engraved portrait of Tasso (published by Charles Knight, engraved by Robert Hart) is bound-in before the title page. In this copy, there are three sections containing interleaved materials: between G6 and H1, between P1 and P2, between 2B6 and 2C1, between 2G3 and 2G4, and following 2L4. The interleaved materials are primarily articles related to Tasso and other booksellers' descriptions. Early inscriptions and autographs, present on the first and final leaves, are faded to illegibility.