NOTE.
The title-pages, with collation, of the original and early editions of 'Steps to the Temple' and 'The Delights of the Muses' (1646 to 1670) are here given successively:
1st edition, 1646. (1)
STEPS
TO THE
TEMPLE.
Sacred Poems,
With other Delights of the
Muses.
By Richard Crashaw, sometimes
of Pembroke Hall, and
late Fellow of S. Peters Coll.
in Cambridge.
Printed and Published according to Order.
LONDON,
Printed by T.W. for Humphrey Moseley, and
are to be sold at his shop at the Princes
Armes in St Pauls Church-yard.
1646.
(2)
THE
DELIGHTS
OF THE
MUSES.
OR,
Other Poems written on
severall occasions.
By Richard Crashaw, sometimes of Pembroke
Hall, and late Fellow of St. Peters
Colledge in Cambridge.
Mart. Dic mihi quid melius desidiosus agas.
London,
Printed by T.W. for H. Moseley, at
the Princes Armes in S. Pauls
Churchyard, 1646. [12o]
Collation: Title-page; the Preface to the Reader, pp. 6; the Author's Motto and short Note to Reader, pp. 2 [all unpaged]; 'Steps to the Temple,' pp. 99; title-page of 'Delights,' as supra, and pp. 103-138; the Table, pp. 4.
2d edition, 1648.
STEPS
TO THE
TEMPLE,
Sacred Poems.
With
The Delights of the Muses.
By Richard Crashaw, sometimes
of Pembroke Hall, and
late fellow of S. Peters Coll.
in Cambridge.
The second Edition wherein are added divers
pieces not before extant.
London,
Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be
sold at his Shop at the Princes Armes
in St. Pauls Church-yard.
1648. [12o]
The title-page to the 'Delights of the Muses' is exactly the same with that of 1646, except the date '1648.' Collation: Engraved title-page; title-page (printed); the Preface to the Reader and the Author's Motto, pp. 6; 'Steps,' pp. 110; the Table, pp. 4; the 'Delights;' title-page; the Table, pp. 3; Poems, pp. 71.
3d edition, 1652.
CARMEN
DEO NOSTRO,
Te Decet Hymnvs
Sacred Poems,
Collected,
Corrected,
Avgmented,
Most humbly Presented.
To
My Lady
The Covntesse of
Denbigh
By
Her most deuoted Seruant.
R.C.
In heaty [sic] acknowledgment of his immortall
obligation to her Goodnes & Charity.
At Paris
By Peter Targa, Printer to the Archbishope
ef [sic] Paris, in S. Victors streete at
the golden sunne.
M.DC.LII. [8vo]
Collation: Title-page; Verses by Car, pp. 3; Verse-Letter to Countess of Denbigh, pp. 3 [all unpaged]; the Poems, pp. 131. (See our Preface for more on this and preceding and succeeding volumes, and for notice of a separate edition of the Verse-Letter to the Countess of Denbigh.)
4th edition, erroneously designated 2d edition, 1670.
STEPS
TO THE
TEMPLE,
THE
Delights
Of The
Muses,
and
Carmen
Deo Nostro.
By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes Fellow of Pembroke
Hall, and late Fellow of St. Peters
Colledge in Cambridge.
The 2d. Edition.
In the Savoy,
Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringham at the
Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the
New Exchange. 1670. [8vo]
Collation: Engraving of a 'Temple;' title-page; the Preface to the Reader and the Author's Motto, pp. 8; the Table, pp. 6 [all unpaged]; 'Steps,' pp. 77; 'Delights,' pp. 81-137; 'Carmen Deo Nostro, Te Decet Hymnvs,' pp. 141-208. For later editions see our Preface, as before, and for details on all, early and recent, and Manuscripts; and also our Memorial-Introduction and Essay. The 'Preface' of 1646 was reprinted in 1648 without change, save a few slight orthographical differences, and these: p. xlvi. line 3, 'their' for 'its dearest:' p. xlvii. line 1, 'subburd' for 'suburb:' and ibid, line 19, 'then' for 'than:' 1648 our text. It follows this Note in its own place. G.
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