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Natures pictures drawn by fancies pencil to the life. Written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princess, the lady Marchioness of Newcastle. In this volume there are several feigned stories of natural descriptions, as comical, tragical, and tragi-comical, poetical, romancical, philosophical, and historical, both in prose and verse, some all verse, some all prose, some mixt, partly prose and partly verse. Also, there are some morals, and some dialogues; but they are as the advantage loaves of bread to a bakers dozen; and a true story at the end, wherein there is no feignings.

Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.

London : printed for J. Martin, and J. Allestrye, at the Bell in Saint Paul's Church-yard, 1656. Great Britain England London.

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  • Title:
    Natures pictures drawn by fancies pencil to the life. Written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princess, the lady Marchioness of Newcastle. In this volume there are several feigned stories of natural descriptions, as comical, tragical, and tragi-comical, poetical, romancical, philosophical, and historical, both in prose and verse, some all verse, some all prose, some mixt, partly prose and partly verse. Also, there are some morals, and some dialogues; but they are as the advantage loaves of bread to a bakers dozen; and a true story at the end, wherein there is no feignings.
  • Author: Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
  • Contributor: Thomas Grenville 1755-1846, former owner.;
    Peeter Clouwet 1629-1670, engraver.
  • Subjects: 1641-1700; Fiction -- England -- 17th century
  • Publication Details: London : printed for J. Martin, and J. Allestrye, at the Bell in Saint Paul's Church-yard, 1656.
  • Language: English
  • Place Name: Great Britain England London.
  • Identifier: System number: 000640252
  • Notes: Frontis. signed: Pet. Clouwe sculp., i.e. Peeter Clouwet.
    Pp. 403, 404 misnumbered 387, 390
    With final errata leaf.
    Signatures: a² b-c⁴ [A]² B-O⁴ *⁴ P-3E⁴ 3F⁴.
    Citation/references note: ESTC, R35074
    Citation/references note: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), N855
  • Physical Description: [24], 102, [10], 105-390 [i.e. 404], [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : portraits ; 29 cm (2º)
  • Copy Note: Ownership: Copy at G.11599. From the library of Sir Thomas Grenville (1755-1846). With Grenville's gold embossed stamps on front and rear boards, and front paste-down. Ms. inscription in Thomas Grenville’s (1755-1846) hand on slip attached to second free endpaper recto: "Newcastle Dss: Nature's Pictures ... This edition is rare & valuable. It has the Life of the Dss: written by herself p.368-391. which was suppressed in the subsequent edition. ... This copy too has Mss. notes by the Dss: pointing out the sons & passages written by the Duke who was then Marquis of Newcastle.".
    Copy note: Copy at G.11599. "Her Excellencies comical tales in prose. The first part.", (quire *⁴), misbound after the preliminaries. With ms. notes in the hand of Margaret Cavendish [née Lucas], duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne (1623?–1673), writer, throughout.
    Copy note: Copy at 841.m.25. With ms. inscription on fourth front free endpaper verso in a contemporary hand: "The manuscript notes in this volume are in the Duchess's own hand writing". With ms. notes in the hand of Margaret Cavendish [née Lucas], duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne (1623?–1673), writer, throughout.
    Physical condition: Copy at 841.m.25. Imperfect: wanting the title page, all after p.398, and the plate.
  • Shelfmark(s): General Reference Collection G.11599
    General Reference Collection 841.m.25
  • UIN: BLL01000640252
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