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THE WORKS OF SIR DAVID LINDSAY
prosequi, qui pro Patria vitam profuderunt. / Ovid. 2. Fast. /
Ex memorem famam, qui bene gessit habet. / [Ornaments] /
—■*_. ^—• •—^ v— —— / Imprentit at Edinburgh
/ be HENRIE CHARTERIS. / anno m. d. xciiii. / Cum
Priuilegio Regali.
Quarto. Collation : A-C8 D4, 35 lines to the page, blackletter,
not paginated, size 7I* x 5f". A2a-C8b The Sqvyer of the
Bynnis ; Dia-D4 The Testament.
This is the earliest extant edition of Squyer Meldrum, but
it is evidently a reprint from an earlier edition, printed by
John Ross Henry Charteris, 1579-1580. The quotations on
the title were supplied by Henry Charteris for the first edition,
and prove that an edition was printed for Charteris before
1581. Both are to be found on the title of Charteris’s edition
of the Lyf and Adis of the Maist Illvster and Vaih,eand Campioun
William Wallace, etc., 2nd edn., 1594, reprinted from an
edition of 1570, the title of which is wanting.
Copies Known
1. B.M. C. 39. d. 23. Contains an inscription at the foot of the
title, ‘ Tho : Arrowsmyth seruant to Henry Bowes Esquire. Erupt, in
Edenbr. Marche ij° 1597. pr* xxx d. Scottish.’ Evidently an English¬
man and his servant. This copy is cropped along the headlines.
2. National Library of Scotland. H. 29. c. 23. Bound up with a
copy of 1594. The last pages have been badly wormed at the bottom.
3. Henry E. Huntington Library. The Huth copy, bound by
Bedford. Huth Sale Catalogue, IV. 4597.
Laing, Lindsay, III. 285, recorded a copy in private hands, bound up
with a copy of the Works 1592.
The will of Henry Charteris, who died on the 29th August
1599, is dated the 16th April 1598. In his buith were
Item, xl Squyres of Meldrum, at ij s. the pece—summa,
iiij 1.
Bannatyne Miscellany, II. 224.
1597
The Works of Sir David Lindsay, [1597].
There are two editions of the Works, both containing iden¬
tical preliminaries with title-pages dated 1597, but with abso¬
lutely different settings-up of text. I propose to identify
THE WORKS OF SIR DAVID LINDSAY
prosequi, qui pro Patria vitam profuderunt. / Ovid. 2. Fast. /
Ex memorem famam, qui bene gessit habet. / [Ornaments] /
—■*_. ^—• •—^ v— —— / Imprentit at Edinburgh
/ be HENRIE CHARTERIS. / anno m. d. xciiii. / Cum
Priuilegio Regali.
Quarto. Collation : A-C8 D4, 35 lines to the page, blackletter,
not paginated, size 7I* x 5f". A2a-C8b The Sqvyer of the
Bynnis ; Dia-D4 The Testament.
This is the earliest extant edition of Squyer Meldrum, but
it is evidently a reprint from an earlier edition, printed by
John Ross Henry Charteris, 1579-1580. The quotations on
the title were supplied by Henry Charteris for the first edition,
and prove that an edition was printed for Charteris before
1581. Both are to be found on the title of Charteris’s edition
of the Lyf and Adis of the Maist Illvster and Vaih,eand Campioun
William Wallace, etc., 2nd edn., 1594, reprinted from an
edition of 1570, the title of which is wanting.
Copies Known
1. B.M. C. 39. d. 23. Contains an inscription at the foot of the
title, ‘ Tho : Arrowsmyth seruant to Henry Bowes Esquire. Erupt, in
Edenbr. Marche ij° 1597. pr* xxx d. Scottish.’ Evidently an English¬
man and his servant. This copy is cropped along the headlines.
2. National Library of Scotland. H. 29. c. 23. Bound up with a
copy of 1594. The last pages have been badly wormed at the bottom.
3. Henry E. Huntington Library. The Huth copy, bound by
Bedford. Huth Sale Catalogue, IV. 4597.
Laing, Lindsay, III. 285, recorded a copy in private hands, bound up
with a copy of the Works 1592.
The will of Henry Charteris, who died on the 29th August
1599, is dated the 16th April 1598. In his buith were
Item, xl Squyres of Meldrum, at ij s. the pece—summa,
iiij 1.
Bannatyne Miscellany, II. 224.
1597
The Works of Sir David Lindsay, [1597].
There are two editions of the Works, both containing iden¬
tical preliminaries with title-pages dated 1597, but with abso¬
lutely different settings-up of text. I propose to identify
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| Description | Edited by Douglas Hamer. Edinburgh : Printed for the Society by W. Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1931-1936. Contents : Volume 1. Text of the poems. -- Volume 2. Ane satyre of the thrie estaitis, versions I-III. -- Volume 3. Notes to the poems. -- Volume 4. Introduction. Bibliography (p.[1]-122) Notes to Ane satyre. Appendices and indexes. Glossary. |
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