[Commonplace book], [early 19th century].

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[Commonplace book], [early 19th century].

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Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of several hundred sixteenth-century sonnets, copied from early printed editions, including their title pages. The volume contains Cynthia, with certain sonnets, by Richard Barnfield; Fidessa, more chaste than kinde, by Bartholomew Griffin, including a copy of Griffin's dedicatory letter to M. William Essex of Lamebourne; Diella, certaine sonnets, adioyned to the amorous poeme of Dom Diego and Gineura, by Richard Lynche, including a copy of the dedicatory letter to Lady Anne Glemnham from the publisher, Henry Olney; and Diana, or the excellent conceitful sonnets of H. C. augmented with diverse quatorzains of honorable and learned personages, by Henry Constable. This last entry is followed by a note, tipped in, with a brief biography of Constable, and four sonnets by Constable to Sir Phillip Sidney's soul, prefaced to the first edition of Sidney's Apologie for poetrie. The volume also contains numerous emendations in pencil.

1 v. (250 p.) ; 19 x 12 cm.

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Griffin, Bartholomew, -1602

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Lynche, Richard, fl.1596-1601

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Park, Thomas, 1759-1834

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English antiquary and bibliographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to William Hayley, 1800 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610523 Thomas Park was born in 1759 and spent his early life training to be an engraver. In 1797 he changed his occupation, turning his total attention instead to literature and antiquities. In 1792 he published his first volume of verse. He went on to publish more verse but mainly he edited many historical and lite...

Constable, Henry, 1562-1613

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Barnfield, Richard, 1574-1627

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Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586

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