Natures pictures drawn by fancies pencil to the life. Written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princess, the lady Marchioness of Newcastle. In this volume there are several feigned stories of natural descriptions, as comical, tragical, and tragi-comical, poetical, romancical, philosophical, and historical, both in prose and verse, some all verse, some all prose, some mixt, partly prose and partly verse. Also, there are some morals, and some dialogues; but they are as the advantage loaves of bread to a bakers dozen; and a true story at the end, wherein there is no feignings.

People / Organizations

• Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for J. Martin, and J. Allestrye, at the Bell in Saint Paul's Church-yard, 1656.

Added name

Clouwet, Peeter, 1629-1670, engraver.

Publication year

1656

ESTC No.

R35074

Grub Street ID

117530

Description

[30], 102, [10], 105-390 [i.e. 404], [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ports. ; 2⁰

Note

Frontis. signed: Pet. Clouwe sculp., i.e. Peeter Clouwet.

Pp. 403, 404 misnumbered 387, 390

With final errata leaf.

Uncontrolled note

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