Illustrations of Early English Poetry Edited by J. Payne Collier. Vol. V

Illustrations of Early English Poetry Edited by J. Payne Collier. Vol. V

Author: Collier, J. Payne (John Payne) (ed.)

Year: 1866

Fifth of 5 volumes of the "Blue Series,” reprints in 4to. edited by John Payne Collier. Each piece is paged separately, with facsimiles of original title pages. Contains: [J. Bodenham], Englands Helicon. London, Printed for I. R. for John Flasket, 1600 [1866], pp. vi, 7-110. (Fr# 1053, Blue Series, no. 5) F. Davison, A poetical rhapsody containing, Diverse Sonnets, Odes, Elegies, Madrigalls, and other Poesies, both in Rhime, and Measured Verse. Never yet published. London, Printed […] by V. S. for John Baily, 1602 [1866], pp. vi, 112, 113-194. (Fr# 1057, Blue Series, no. 6) N. D., An antidote against melancholy: made up in pills. Compounded of Witty Ballads, Jovial Songs, and Merry Catches. These witty Poems, though sometime may seem to halt on crutches, Yet they’l all merrily please you for your charge, which not much is. London, Printed by Mer. Melancholicus, 1661 [1870], pp. ii, [4], 96. (Fr# 1087, Blue Series, no. 13) See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, A144, A 148, A178.