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THE WORKS OF SIR DAVID LINDSAY
1610
The Histone of Squyer Meldrum, 1610.
THE [within a factotum, 3" x 1"] / HISTORIE OF A /
NOBLE AND VALIANT / SQVYER William Meldrvm,
VM- / quhile Laird of Cleish and Binnes. Compy- / led be Sir
David Lindesay of the Mount, / alias, Lyon King of Armes. /
The Testament of the said William / Meldrum Squyer. Com-
pyled alswa be / Sir David Lindesay, &c. / Cicero [ ?.] Philip.
14. / Proprium sapientis est grata eorum virtutem memoria /
prosequi, qui pro Patria vitam profuderunt. / Ovid. 2. Fast.
/ Et memorem famam qui bene gessit habet. / [Ornament] /
EDINBVRGH / Printed for Richard Lawson. 1610. / with
Licence.
Quarto. Collation: A-G4. Size 7" X qf", but the copy is
much reduced. Title on Aia, verso blank. The text of The
Historie of Squyer Meldrum covers from A2a-F4b, which bears
an ornamental block. The headlines, The Squyer of the Binnes,
on recto and verso, run throughout both poems. The Testa¬
ment of Squyer Meldrum covers from Gia-G4b. On G4b is
the device of Thomas Finlason, with his initials, (McKerrow,
Devices, 358). Blackletter, 35 lines to the page, omitting
headlines and signatures. Catchwords, but no numeration.
Copies Known :
1. Library of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. Formerly Laing’s
copy. Laing Sale Catalogue, I. 1872, bought by Quaritch, £22, xos.
2. Henry E. Huntington Library. Bound up with the unique copy
of 1610. The Roxburghe copy, bought by Heber for £n, 10s., from
whose library it passed to Britwell, and sold, February 1922. No. 428.
1614
The Works of Sir David Lindsay, 1614.
THE / WORKES OF / the famovs and / worthie Knight
Sir David / Lyndsay of the Mont / alias Lion, King of Armes. /
Newly corrected and vindicate from the former errours /
wherewith they were corrupted, and augmented / with sundrie
workes neuer before imprinted. / IOB 7. / Militia est vita
hominis super ten am. / Vivet etiam post funera virtus. / [Device
of Andrew Hart, McKerrow, Devices, 378] / EDINBVRGH /
Printed by Andro Hart, Anno Dom. 1614.
THE WORKS OF SIR DAVID LINDSAY
1610
The Histone of Squyer Meldrum, 1610.
THE [within a factotum, 3" x 1"] / HISTORIE OF A /
NOBLE AND VALIANT / SQVYER William Meldrvm,
VM- / quhile Laird of Cleish and Binnes. Compy- / led be Sir
David Lindesay of the Mount, / alias, Lyon King of Armes. /
The Testament of the said William / Meldrum Squyer. Com-
pyled alswa be / Sir David Lindesay, &c. / Cicero [ ?.] Philip.
14. / Proprium sapientis est grata eorum virtutem memoria /
prosequi, qui pro Patria vitam profuderunt. / Ovid. 2. Fast.
/ Et memorem famam qui bene gessit habet. / [Ornament] /
EDINBVRGH / Printed for Richard Lawson. 1610. / with
Licence.
Quarto. Collation: A-G4. Size 7" X qf", but the copy is
much reduced. Title on Aia, verso blank. The text of The
Historie of Squyer Meldrum covers from A2a-F4b, which bears
an ornamental block. The headlines, The Squyer of the Binnes,
on recto and verso, run throughout both poems. The Testa¬
ment of Squyer Meldrum covers from Gia-G4b. On G4b is
the device of Thomas Finlason, with his initials, (McKerrow,
Devices, 358). Blackletter, 35 lines to the page, omitting
headlines and signatures. Catchwords, but no numeration.
Copies Known :
1. Library of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. Formerly Laing’s
copy. Laing Sale Catalogue, I. 1872, bought by Quaritch, £22, xos.
2. Henry E. Huntington Library. Bound up with the unique copy
of 1610. The Roxburghe copy, bought by Heber for £n, 10s., from
whose library it passed to Britwell, and sold, February 1922. No. 428.
1614
The Works of Sir David Lindsay, 1614.
THE / WORKES OF / the famovs and / worthie Knight
Sir David / Lyndsay of the Mont / alias Lion, King of Armes. /
Newly corrected and vindicate from the former errours /
wherewith they were corrupted, and augmented / with sundrie
workes neuer before imprinted. / IOB 7. / Militia est vita
hominis super ten am. / Vivet etiam post funera virtus. / [Device
of Andrew Hart, McKerrow, Devices, 378] / EDINBVRGH /
Printed by Andro Hart, Anno Dom. 1614.
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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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