Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography: Festschrift for Professor T.A. Birrell on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday |
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Contents
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Hans Bots Jean Leclerc as Journalist of the Bibliothèques His con | 53 |
Its origins | 83 |
Foot Some Bindings for Charles I | 95 |
Johan Gerritsen A Jonson ProofSheet Neptunes Triumph | 107 |
Caxtons trans | 119 |
F J M Korsten Thomas Bakers Reflections upon Learning | 133 |
J G Riewald The English Actors in the Low Countries 1585 | 157 |
A forgotten Benedictine translator | 179 |
Irène Simon Stillingfleets Sermon Preached Before the King | 195 |
Anna E C Simoni John Wodroephes Spared Houres | 211 |
A neglected Crashaw poem | 233 |
Revolt in | 245 |
A Checklist of the Writings of T A Birrell | 261 |
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| Title | Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography: Festschrift for Professor T.A. Birrell on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday Volume 46 of Costerus (Atlantic Highlands) Volume 46 of Costerus. New series Volume 46 of New series, Costerus |
| Editors | Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts |
| Contributors | T. A. Birrell, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts |
| Publisher | Rodopi, 1984 |
| ISBN | 9062037364, 9789062037360 |
| Length | 268 pages |
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