Sir Thomas Overburies vision,
by Richard Niccols, 1616. With introduction by Mr. James Maidment.

Description

Main Author

Niccols, Richard, 1584-1616.

Related Names

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637
Maidment, James, 1795?-1879.

Language(s)

English

Published

Privately printed. [Glasgow, R. Anderson] 1873.

Subjects

Somerset, Frances Howard Carr, > Somerset, Frances Howard Carr, / Countess of, > Somerset, Frances Howard Carr, / Countess of, / 1593-1632
Overbury, Thomas, > Overbury, Thomas, / Sir, > Overbury, Thomas, / Sir, / 1581-1613.

Note

The Appendix (p. 25-26) contains a poem by Ben Jonson "To the most noble ... Robert, Earle of Somerset" upon the marriage of Robert Carr, earl of Somerset and Frances, countess of Essex (taken from Mr. Henry Huth's "Inedited poetical miscellanies, 1584-1700")
"A contemporaneous description ... of the unhappy persons who were brought to the scaffold for acting as agents of the Countess" of Essex in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. cf. Introd.
Original title: Sir Thomas Overbvries Vision. With the ghoasts of Weston, M Turner, the late Lieftenant of the Tower, and Franklin. By R.N. Oxon... [Vignette] Printed for R.M. & T.I. 1616.
A facsimile reprint of the 1st edition, presented to the Hunterian club by Mr. Alexander Young, of Glasgow.

Physical Description

26 p. facsim.: 1 p.ℓ., 56 p. illus. 25 cm.

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