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The arte of English poesie
Title:
The arte of English poesie
Author:
Puttenham, Richard, 1520?-1601?, supposed author.
Publication Information:
London : Printed by Harding and Wright, for R. Triphook, 1811.
Physical Description:
xxxviii, 6 unnumbered pages, 2 l., 2 unnumbered pages, 1 l., 258 (that is 250), 14 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 26 cm
General Note:
"The present impression consists of only two hundred copies": p. xvi.

"Of the author" (p. [v]-xvi) signed Jos. Haselwood.

Reprint of the original edition, with reproduction of t.p.: The arte of English poesie contrived into three bookes: the first of poets and poesie, the second of proportion, the third of ornament. At London, Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the black-Friers neere Ludgate, 1589.

Error in paging: no. 93-100 omitted.

Issued also as v. 1 of Ancient critical essays upon English poets and poësy, edited by Joseph Haslewood, 1811.

Ascribed to both Richard and George Puttenham.
Language:
English
Format :
Book