The loves of Hero and Leander : a mock poem: with marginall notes, and other choice pieces of drollery. Got by heart, and often repeated by divers witty gentlemen, and ladies, that use to walke in the New Exchange, and at their recreations in Hide-Park

Folger bibliographic ID: 138048
ESTC number: R19169
Wing number: L3278
Folger call number: L3278
Folger holdings ID: 130123

Bibliographic format

octavo

General notes

Sometimes attributed to James Smith In verse Another edition, printed in the same year, has "marginal" in place of "marginall" in line 7 of title and has 58 p. instead of 59

Item information about Folger L3278

Bound in red morocco with gilt double fillet border, gilt panelled spine, gilt tooled edges of boards and turn-ins. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Manuscript marks on front free endpaper. Trimmed, affecting side-notes. Provenance: red leather bookplate of Robert Hoe; manuscript mark on front free endpaper: "Hoe: 1548"; Huntington Library duplicate copy

Extended title: The loves of Hero and Leander : a mock poem: with marginall notes, and other choice pieces of drollery. Got by heart, and often repeated by divers witty gentlemen, and ladies, that use to walke in the New Exchange, and at their recreations in Hide-Park

Humorous poetry, English

attributed name: Smith, James, 1605-1667
former owner: Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909
former owner: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery