Part 8 (2/2)

Without date, printer's name, or device. Contains P 6, in fours, the last leaf blank.

III.a. THE FOURTHE EGLOGE OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY.--Pynson. No date. Quarto.

Black letter.

It is ent.i.tled, ”The Boke of Codrus and Mynaclus,” over the cut of a priest, with a shaven crown, writing at a plutus. It concludes with ”The discrypcion of the towre of Vertue & Honour, into whiche the n.o.ble Hawarde contended to entre, by worthy acts of chiualry,” related by Menalcas, in stanzas of eight verses. At the end, ”Thus endeth the fourthe Eglogge of Alexandre Barcley, coteyning the maner of the riche men anenst poets and other clerkes. Emprinted by Richarde Pynson priter to the kynges n.o.ble grace.” On the last leaf is his device, No. V.

Contains 22 leaves, with cuts.

III.b. THE FYFTE EGLOGE OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY. --Wynkyn de Worde. No date.

Quarto. Black letter.

”The fyfte Eglog of Alexandre Barclay of the Cytezen and vplondyshman.”

This t.i.tle is over a large woodcut of a priest, sitting in his study.

Beneath, ”Here after foloweth the Prologe.” On the verso of A ii. are two cuts of two shepherds, whole lengths, with this head-t.i.tle, ”Interlocutoures be Amyntas and Faustus.” There are no other cuts.

Colophon: ”Here endeth the v. Eglog of Alexandre Barclay of the Cytezyn and vplondysshman. Imprynted at London in flete strete, at the sygne of [the] Sonne, by Wynkyn de worde.” Beneath, device No. v. Contains A 8, B 4, C 6; 18 leaves. There is a copy in the British Museum.

With the first four Eclogues as above, Woodhouse, 1803, (Herbert's copy), 25.; resold, Dent, 1827, 36.; resold, Heber, 1834, 24. 10s.

At Heber's sale this unique set, containing the only known copy of the first edition of the first four Eclogues, was bought by Thorpe; further I have not been able to trace it.

III.c. THE EGLOGES.--John Herforde. No date. Quarto.

”Here begynneth the Egloges of Alex. Barclay, Priest, whereof the first three conteineth the Miseries of Courters and Courtes.” ”Probably a reprint of Pynson's impression,” Dibdin. Contains only Eclogues I.-III.

Herbert conjectures the date to be 1548; Corser, 1546; Hazlitt, 1545.

III.d. THE EGLOGES.--Humfrey Powell. No date. Quarto. Black letter.

”Here begynneth the Egloges of Alexander Barclay, priest, whereof the first thre conteineth the miseries of courters and courtes, of all Princes in general ... In the whiche the interloquutors be, Cornix, and Coridon.” Concludes: ”Thus endeth the thyrde and last Eglogue of the Misery of Courte and Courters, Composed by Alexander Barclay preest, in his youth. Imprinted at London by Humfrey Powell.” Contains only Eclogues I.-III. Collation: t.i.tle, A 1; sig. A to P2, in fours; 58 leaves not numbered.

This is an edition of extreme rarity. It is very well printed, and the t.i.tle is surrounded with a woodcut border with ornamented pillars at the sides. Herbert conjectures the date to be 1549, the Bib.

Anglo-Poetica, Lowndes, and Corser, 1548. There is a copy in the Cambridge University Library, and another in the possession of David Laing, Esq.

Prices: Inglis, 6. 2s. 6d.; Bright, 1845. 10. 10s.; Bib.

Anglo-Poetica, 15.

III.e. CERTAYNE EGLOGES OF ALEXANDER BARCLAY PRIEST.--Cawood. 1570. Folio.

Black letter.

Appended to Cawood's edition of the s.h.i.+p of Fools. No t.i.tle-page, cuts, or pagination. The above heading on A i.

Colophon: Thus endeth the fifth and last Egloge of Alexander Barclay, of the Citizen and the man of the countrey. Imprinted at London in Paules Church-yarde by Iohn Cawood, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie.

c.u.m Priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

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