English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. Volume 8 : Seventeenth-century poetry, music and drama

British Library, London, first edition, 2000. Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm,. vi, 340 pp, ills. Contents include: Francis Beaumont and Nathan Field: New Records of their Early Years, by Hilton Kelliher; 'As far from all Reuolt': Sir John Salisbury, Christ Church MS 184 and Ben Jonson's 'First Ode', by Mark Bland; The 'Running Masque' Recovered: A Masque for the Marquess of Buckingham (c.1619-20) , by James Knowles; 'To the memory of the late excellent poet John Fletcher': A New Poem by John Ford, by Jeremy Maule; An Authorial Collection of Poems by Thomas Carew: The Gower Manuscript, by Peter Beal; The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry, by Scott Nixon; A Newly Discovered Songbook in Poland with works by Henry Lawes and his Contemporaries, by Richard Charteris; Donne Manuscripts in Cheshire, by Dennis Flynn; 'Not the Worst part of my wretched life': Three new letters by Rochester and How to Read Them, by Keith Walker; A New Dating of Rochester's Artemiza to Chlöe, by Nicholas Fisher; Manuscripts at Auction: January 1997 to December 1998, by A. S. G. Edwards. This is the eighth volume of English Manuscript Studies, "an annual periodical which ...seeks to encourage wider exploration of scribal practices and of all aspects of textual transmission in manuscript, as well as offering scope for detailed examination of authors' holographs. It seeks particularly to focus attention on the widespread manuscript culture that continued to flourish in Britain until some two and a half centuries alter the invention of printing. Each volume of English Manuscript Studies includes several illustrated articles on topics ranging over the whole period of 1100-1700, with shorter contributions announcing new discoveries or discussing detailed points of interest, and a comprehensive survey of recent sales, movements and acquisitions of manuscripts. As New in dustwrapper with minor fingersoiling.