DRUMMOND | Poems, 1616

From the Library of the Earls of Haddington

DRUMMOND, WILLIAM

Poems. Edinburgh: Andro Hart, 1616

4to, second impression, woodcut border to title-page, lacking final blank, later panelled calf, minor browning, spine splitting, boards scuffed and slightly soiled

"In 1616 appeared Poems by William Drummond of Hawthorne-denne: it contains sixty-eight sonnets mixed with other lyric poems in two sections, a reprint of Teares on the Death of MoEliades, a set of spiritual poems, and a group of madrigals and epigrams. Since the sonnets are love sonnets, and the two sections relate to a mistress alive and a mistress dead, a legend has persisted that Drummond wrote the set to mourn the death of a fiancée, identified by Drummond's eighteenth-century editors in 1711 as a Miss Cunningham of Barns in Fife, from a family with whom Drummond was certainly closely acquainted." (ODNB)

LITERATURE:

ESTC S105394

PROVENANCE:

Thomas Hamilton (1721-1794), 7th Earl of Haddington, engraved armorial bookplate; thence by descent to the Earls of Haddington

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