Author: Beedome, Thomas [d. ca 1641]. Meynell, Francis [1891 - 1975] - Contributor
Title: SELECT POEMS Divine and Humane
Description: London: Nonesuch Press, 1928. 1st edition thus, limited to 1250 copies (of which this is #1189). Dreyfus 54. See NCBEL I, 1299. Full vellum binding with publisher's slipcase. 51 pp + 6 pp of notes, 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". A Fine copy in a Nr Fine slipcase. Beedome's volume of verses, posthumously published in 1641 under the title of Poems Divine and Humane. The collection was edited by Henry Glapthorne, the dramatist and poet, who prefixed a short prose address "to the reader", which is followed by commendatory verses of Ed. May, Glapthorne (in English and Latin), W. C[hamberlaine ?], Em. D. (two copies), H. S. H. P. R. W. J. S. Tho. Nabbes, and Fran. Beedome (the author's brother). The chief poem in the collection is entitled The Jealous Lover, or the Constant Maid, in six-line stanzas. Songs, epistles, epigrams, elegies, and devotional poems follow. Two epigrams are addressed "to Sir Henry Wotten, Knight", another is in praise of George Wither. There are also epigrams "to his deare friend William Harrington" "to the heroicall Captaine Thomas James" (two), and "to the memory of his honoured friend, Master John Donne, an Eversary". [Wiki] This edition edited by the poet & printer, Francis Meynell, with an introduction written by him.

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