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A Posie of Gilloflowers
1580 edition of A Posie of Gilloflowers reproduced in 1933 edition
Humfrey Gifford (fl. 1580), was an English poet. In 1580 he published A Posie of Gilloflowers containing 46 poems, a selection of verse translations of Italian riddles and nine prose translations from Italian.[1] A new edition was printed in 1875, edited by Alexander Balloch Grosart.[2]
Grosart describes his reference copy of A Posie (now in the British Library)[3] as a "unique exemplar". His edition is itself a rarity - only 40 copies were printed. However, a second copy of the original was discovered in 1930 and a further edition of A Posie was edited by F. J. Harvey Darton in 1933 - this time 500 copies were printed.[4] More recently two of Gifford's poems were included in The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse.[5]
Little is known of Gifford's life. In the Introduction to his Complete Poems, Grosart comments: "Our researches have been wide and persistent and warmly seconded by many fellow book-lovers. The result is sadly disproportionate to the expenditure." He places the Gifford family in Devon, and associates Humfrey with the Poultry Compter - a prison in Cheapside in the City of London - whether as an official or as an inmate is not clear.
^Gifford, Humfrey (1580). Gifford, H. A posie of gilloflowers eche differing from other in colour and odour, yet all sweete. By Humfrey Gifford gent. London: John Perin.
^Gifford, Humfrey (1875). The Complete Poems and Translations in Prose of Humfrey Gifford Gentleman, Edited, with Memorial-Introduction and Notes by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. Manchester: Charles E Simms.
^Gifford, Humfrey. "A posie of gilloflowers eche differing from other in colour and odour, yet all sweete. By Humfrey Gifford gent. Chadwyck-Healey". British Library.
^Gifford, Humfrey (1933). A Posie of Gilloflowers. Hawthornden Press.
^The Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse ed. Edward Lucie-Smith. Penguin. 1965.
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