Harvard, Widener Collection

The author's dedication exemplum presented to Edward Benlowes, inscribed on the title-page Phineas Fletcher and including in the same roman hand a ten-line marginal note on page 59 of the Poetical Miscellanies (by Benlowes?), a quarto, in contemporary calf with Benlowes's arms in gilt.

1633.

Bookplate of Clarence S. Bemens.

Autograph seventeen-line inscription by Chapman, presenting the volume to Henry Reynolds, with a few possibly autograph MS alterations in the printed text, in calf gilt.

c.1624.

Also inscribed Jo: Gorges. and I Ferdi Gorges have reade ouer this Booke. Bookplate of Harry Elkins Widener (1885-1912), American businessman and book collector.

The inscription is printed in Chapman's Homer, ed. Allardyce Nicoll (New York, 1956), II, 503, and in Tannenbaum, p. 114, with a facsimile, Plate XIII. Facsimile of the inscribed page also in Cummings, p. 211.

A receipt to John Warner, signed by Congreve, 16 November 1721.

1721.

Recorded (with the date erroneously cited as 21 November 1721) in Hodges, Letters, p. x.

An exemplum of the printed folio edition, with Sidney's inscription on the title-page Philippo Sidneio. Patauij. 20. Junij 1574 (when he was studying at Padua), in later red morocco gilt.

c.1574.

Inscription on a flyleaf, dated 30 March 1837, by Charles Marriott (1811-58), Sub-dean of Oriel College, Oxford. According to W.C. Hazlitt's annotated A Roll of Honour (1908, in the British Library) this volume appeared at a public sale of the library of Beaumont of Whitley, near Huddersfield, in 1906.

Discussed in William L. Godshalk, A Sidney Autograph, Book Collector, 13 (Spring 1964), 65. A facsimile of the inscription is in Hazlitt, p. 214.

Exemplum of the 1677 edition of Spenser's works owned and annotated by Matthew Prior (1664-1721), poet and diplomat.

Late 17th century.

Discussed in William Leigh Godschalk, Prior's Copy of Spenser's Works (1677), PBSA, 61 (1967), 52-5.