Laneham's letter describing the Magnificent Pageants presented before Queen Elizabeth, at Kenilworth Castle in 1575; repeatedly referred to in the romance of Kenilworth; with an introductory preface, glossarial and explanatory notes

Laneham's letter describing the Magnificent Pageants presented before Queen Elizabeth, at Kenilworth Castle in 1575; repeatedly referred to in the romance of Kenilworth; with an introductory preface, glossarial and explanatory notes

Author: Laneham, Robert

Year: 1821

8vo. pp. xvi, [1 ], 114. Signatures: [a4] b8 B-H8 I2. Contemporary calf. Gold tooling. Frontispiece portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Manuscript annotations. “The collection - Errata in the [?] autograph of Sir [?] J. Payne Collier" handwritten on front free endpaper. "J. Payne Collier Shakespeare forger" handwritten on title page. Armorial bookplate “Loyal je suis” on front pastedown. Pp. 36-38 describe the ballads and romances in the library of the author's friend, Captain Cox of Coventry. The work was part of the collection of John Payne Collier and contains numerous annotations by his hand. It was marked up for a new edition that never appeared. A reprint published in the wake of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Kenilworth.’ A reprint of the original (see Bib# 1291573/Fr# 261.4 in this collection for a facsimile) published in the wake of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Kenilworth.’ The ‘Letter’ has been convincingly reattributed to the minor poet William Patten (fl.1540-1589). The elaborate entertainment described took place at Kenilworth during Elizabeth’s extended visit in July 1575, but the most interesting feature of the text, bibliographically, is the list incidentally given of popular books in the lib