Il pastor fido: The faithful shepheard. . With an addition of divers other poems, concluding with a short discourse of the long civil warres of Rome. By the Right Honourable Sir Richard Fanshawe Knight.
Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538-1612)
Category
Books
Date
1664
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3023811
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24],240,251-320,[2]p., frontis. . ill.., port.. . 8vo. Collates: [24], 240, 251-299, 290-201, 302-303, 294-205, 306-307, 298-299, 310-311, 302, 333, 314-320 p.. Provenance: Inscription in ink on front free-endpaper: 'Alas I know a woman's heart'. - Another stanza written out on verso of second free-endpaper; 'Katherine Rooper' on recto of frontispiece. - 'Alas I know a woman's heart would prove / Too small a vessel for o'er flowing hour' on rear free-endpaper, and a further quotation in another hand at end.
Makers and roles
Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538-1612) Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666).