Theophila, or, Loves sacrifice : a divine poem
- Alternate Title
- Theofilia
- Loves sacrifice
- Creator
- Benlowes, Edward, 1603?-1676
- Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726 (translator)
- Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654 (translator)
- Barlow, Francis, 1622-1704 (engraver)
- Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677 (engraver)
- Marshall, William, active 1617-1650 (engraver)
- Norton, Roger, -1662 (printer)
- Moseley, Humphrey, -1661 (bookseller)
- Form
- books
- Date
- 1652
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 48 unnumbered pages, 268 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 29 cm (folio)
- Publisher
- Printed by by R[oger]. N[orton]. Sold by Henry Seile in Fleetstreet, and Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard
- Related Place
- England -- London.
- Notes
- Title page printed in red and black.
- Includes some Latin verses and translations by the author and Latin translations of Canto I by Alexander Ross and of Canto VII by Jeremy Collier, the elder.
- A prominent feature of this title is the engraved plates with which it is profusely illustrated. It is said that no two copies are exactly alike as to number and position of illustrations. Cf. ESTC.
- Engravings signed: Will. Marshall, P. Lovell, Lambart, Tho. Cecill; other engravings by Francis Barlow and Wenceslaus Hollar.
- Title vignette; head- and tail pieces; woodcut initials.
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full blue leather with gold-tooled border on boards; author, title and imprint stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled designs on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gauffered and gilt.
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of the author Edward Benlowes (1603-1676) on front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplates of Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh (1791-1850), with motto "Tout vient de dieu" and of Beverly Chew (1850-1924), President of the Grolier Club ("Ex Libris Beverly Chew") on front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has blue leather label with ex libris of Jerome Kern, American composer of musical theatre and popular music, on front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of J. Harson Purdy with motto "Fidelitas" on front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ownership inscription "J. Walker. Benlowes" on front free endpaper.
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio EC65 B4387 652t
- Provenance
- Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Benlowes, Edward, 1603-1676 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Chew, Beverly, 1850-1924 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Purdy, Harson, J. (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Walker, J. (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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