George Gascoigne, Posies (1575)

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Date

1575

Author

George Gascoigne Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

The posies of George Gascoigne Esquire

Publication place

London

Printer

H. Bynneman

Publisher

Richard Smith

Transcription source

Henry E. Huntington Library 59547; Bodleian Library; Folger STC 11636 c.1, c.2; EEBO/TCP; Internet Archive

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

poetry

Summary

Allusion to inkhorn terms in the introduction (¶4r), and marginal glosses on old English or hard words and expressions

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: gloss
sample: nam* * Am not (p. 64);
(a) vnkouth (a) vnknowen (p. 200)

Alston

VI.438

STC

11636

Other editions

1573: STC 11635 ("A hundreth sundrie flowres bounde vp in one small poesie...");
1575: STC 11637 (variant of STC 11636)'
1587: STC 11638 ("The whole woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquyre...");
1587: STC 11639 ("The pleasauntest workes of George Gascoigne Esquyre...")

Facsimiles

Gascoigne, George. The Posies. The English Experience, no. 929. Amsterdam and Norwood, N.J.: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and W. J. Johnson, 1979. view record

Modern editions

Gascoigne, George. The Complete Works of George Gascoigne. Ed. John W. Cunliffe. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907-10. view record