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EARLY LITERATURE. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. This comprehensive collection begins with the famous Elizabethan Era that saw such literary giants as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Marlowe, as well as the introduction of the sonnet. Traveling through Jacobean and Restoration literature, the highlight of this series is the Pollard and Redgrave 1475-1640 selection of the rarest works from the English Renaissance. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++"The vvhole woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquire: newlye compyled into one volume, that is to say: his Flowres, hearbes, weedes, the fruites of warre, the comedie called Supposes"WorksHundreth sundrie flowres bounde up in one small poesie.Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.Not in fact the complete works, but essentially an enlarged edition of: A hundreth sundrie flowres bounde up in one small poesie.Signatures: [par.]4 2[par].4 (-2[par.]4) 3[par.]-4[par.]4 5[par.]1 a-k; B4 C-P Q4 S-Z 2 [par.]4 2 S 2 V-Y; A-2 B; 2 A-2 C (D)2 2 D2 ."Hearbes" has separate pagination, with divisional title on B1. "VVeedes" has separate divisional title on P3; pagination is continuous. "The steele glas" has title page on S1. "A briefe rehearsall, or rather a true copie of as much as was presented before her maiesties at Kenelworth .." (caption title) has separate register; "Certaine notes of instruction concerning the making of verse or rime in English," quires (D) and 2 D.P. 310 misnumbered 216; p. 317 misnumbered 217; numerous other internal misnumberings.Variant: title has "Whoole workes"; many pages in variant settings. Another variant (STC 11639, Greg III, p. 1064-6()) has title "The pleasauntest workes ..."[32], 158, [2]; [4], 76 p. 77-106 leaves, 107-173, [3], 175-296 p., [4], 291-306 leaves, 307-216 [i.e. 310], [8], 217 [i.e. 317]-351, [1]; [56] p.London: Imprinted by Abell Ieffes, dwelling at the Fore Stre te, without Cre plegate, neere vnto Grubstr ete, 1587.Greg, III, p. 1064-6(*). /STC (2nd ed.) / 11638EnglishReproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery++++This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, there are sometimes problems with the original work or the micro-film from which the books were digitized. This can result in errors in reproduction. Possible imperfections include missing and blurred pages, poor pictures, markings and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
