Ephelia. Female poems on several occasions. : Written by Ephelia

Folger bibliographic ID: 144060
ESTC number: R21721
Wing number: P2030
Folger call number: P2030
Folger holdings ID: 131695

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

Attributed by Wing to Mrs. Joan Philips, and by Maureen E. Mulvihill to Lady Mary Villiers, later Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1622-1685); see ANQ (Fall, 1996; Summer, 1999) and "An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, second edition", 1998 In verse With a frontispiece portrait of Ephelia (ill.). The title page presents a large typographical mark (a calligraphic line device of the cul-de-lampe class; Rahir fleuron 203), which originally appeared in two 1670 imprints of the Mathys firm of Leiden, a printer of many imitation-Elzevier books. (Mulvihill, M.E., ANQ (Summer, 1999) illus.)

Item information about Folger P2030

127615. Bound in gilt tooled red goatskin with gilt rolled turn-ins; all edges gilt; binding signed by Club Bindery. Provenance: autograph of John Verney on B1r; bookplate of Beverly Chew (motto "esto quod esse videris"); Huntington Library duplicate copy

Extended title: Female poems on several occasions. : Written by Ephelia

author: Ephelia, active 1679
former owner: Chew, Beverly, 1850-1924
former owner: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
attributed name: Ephelia, active 1679