The non-dramatic works of Thomas DekkerIn five volumes . leep in no way isfaithful to the original. The features especially are grotesquelyfalse. The dreaming poets nose is in the original narrow andsensitive, in Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps thick and gross ; the checksthin and worn, in the reproduction fat and bloated, and so through-out. Our admirable fac-simile (in 40) will therefore be doubly-acceptable. The late Rev. Thomas Corser, in his CollectaneaAnglo-Poetica (s. «.), has re-used Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps wood-block, and by the kindness of the Chetham Society I am enabledto give an impressio
The non-dramatic works of Thomas DekkerIn five volumes . leep in no way isfaithful to the original. The features especially are grotesquelyfalse. The dreaming poets nose is in the original narrow andsensitive, in Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps thick and gross ; the checksthin and worn, in the reproduction fat and bloated, and so through-out. Our admirable fac-simile (in 40) will therefore be doubly-acceptable. The late Rev. Thomas Corser, in his CollectaneaAnglo-Poetica (s. «.), has re-used Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps wood-block, and by the kindness of the Chetham Society I am enabledto give an impression from this as used by both (page 5), to provehow utterly unfaithful it is to the original. See Memorial-Intro-duction on the probable likeness of the Author herein. The original tractate consists of 22 leaves (B. Museum 39, c. 6). A. B. G. Dekker his Dreame. In which, beeing rapt with a Poetical 1 Enthujiqfme, the great Volumes of Heauen and Hell to Him were opened, in which he read many Wonderfull Things. Eft Deus in nobis, agitante calefcimus LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes. 1620.
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