Songes and Sonettes

Item

Title: Songes and Sonettes
Creator: Howard, Henry (1516/17–1547)
Date: 1567
Reference Number: Special Collections 5868
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Location: The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Link to catalogue record: View the item in the Library's online catalogue
Format: Octavo.
Binding: Nineteenth-century full red grained goatskin; gilt lettering to spine. Nineteenth-century gilt monogram of The John Rylands Library (JR in roundel) stamped on front cover.
Gilt leaf edges.
Provenance: Oval leather label on front paste-down: E Bibliotheca Spenceriana; from the collection of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758–1834).
Extent: This viewer includes the tipped-in portrait of Henry Howard directly preceding the title page, along with the dedicatory epistle ‘To the reader’.
This viewer also includes a portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt, tipped in between sigs. C.ii. (verso) and C.iii. (recto), along with the recto and verso of a loose slip of paper, annotated in a nineteenth-century hand and included within the volume.