Parnassi puerperium: or, Some well-wishes to ingenuity, in the translation of six hundred, of Owen's epigrams; Martial de spectaculis, or of rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most select, in Sir. Tho. More. To which is annext a century of heroick epigrams, (sixty whereo concern the twelve Cæsars; and the forty remaining, several deserving persons.) By the author of that celebrated elegie upon Cleeveland: Tho. Pecke of the Inner Temple, Gent.

All titles

• Parnassi puerperium: or, Some well-wishes to ingenuity, in the translation of six hundred, of Owen's epigrams; Martial de spectaculis, or of rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most select, in Sir. Tho. More. To which is annext a century of heroick epigrams, (sixty whereo concern the twelve Cæsars; and the forty remaining, several deserving persons.) By the author of that celebrated elegie upon Cleeveland: Tho. Pecke of the Inner Temple, Gent.
• Parnassi puerperium Some well-wishes to ingenuity Libellus de spectaculis Heroick epigrams Certain select epigrams Peck's epigrams

People / Organizations

• Thomas Pecke (Author)
• Thomas Basset ("printed for")

Imprint

Printed at London: by James Cottrel, for Tho. Bassett in St. Dunstans Church yard in Fleet-street, 1659.

Added name

Martial. Epigrammata. English More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535. Epigrammata. English. Cottrel, James, fl. 1649-1670. Fisher, Payne, 1616-1693.

Publication year

1659

ESTC No.

R202197

Grub Street ID

79446

Description

[8], 184, [8] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 8⁰

Note

With a frontispiece portrait (plate) with verses signed: P.F., i.e. Payne Fisher.

"Libellus de spectaculis" (Martial's eipgrams), "Certain select epigrams" (More's), and "Heroick epigrams" (Pecke's) each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.

Contents of final leaves: Latin address to the Bishop of Exeter, signed by Pecke (N5r-N6r); "The printer to the reader", (verse) signed: J.C. [i.e. James Cottrel] (N6v); "A catalogue of some books printed ... by T. Basset" (N7r); blank (N7v); vertical half-title which reads "Peck's epigrams" (N8r); blank (N8v).

"When Pecke read Cottrel's verses, ... which ask the charity of the peruser for the errors in printing and claim the authorship of some of the contents, he was apparently sufficiently concerned to insist that Basset allow him to add a reply ["Upon Cottrel, the printer"] which in a few copies is found inserted on an unsigned leaf at the end"--Pforzheimer catalogue. Variant: with this leaf, which contains "Upon Cottrel, the printer" on recto and "errata" and "To the reader" on verso. This leaf not included in above pagination statement.