Author · fl. 1585 – 1622

Valentine Simmes

Elizabethan era and Jacobean era printer. Simmes has a reputation as one of the better printers of his generation, and was responsible for several quartos of Shakespeare's plays.

Works

The monarchicke tragedies
1607
A new and short defense of tabacco
1602
A pleasaunt conceited historie, called The taming of a shrew
1607
The passions of the minde in generall. Corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented. By Thomas Wright. With a treatise thereto adioyning of the clymatericall yeare, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth
1604
The courtiers academie
1598
A booke of the arte and manner how to plant and graffe all sorts of trees
1596
Faultes faults, and nothing else but faultes
1606
Nashes Lenten stuffe
1599
The triumphs ouer death, or, A consolatorie epistle, for afflicted minds, in the affects of dying friends
1596
Mœoniæ. Or, Certaine excellent poems and spirituall hymnes: omitted in the last impression of Peters complaint
1599
The royal entertainement of the Right Honorable the Earle of Nottingham, sent Ambassador from his Maiestie to the King of Spaine
1605
A meditation upon the xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, and xxix, verses of the xv chapter of the first booke of the Chronicles of the Kinges
1603
Truth and falshood: or, A comparison between the truth now taught in England, and the doctrine of the Romish Church
1595
Ciceronis amor
1610
Englandes mourning garment, worne here by plaine shepheardes in memory of their sacred mistresse, Elizabeth, queen of virtue while shee lived, and theame of sorrow, being dead
1603
The Gentleman usher
1606
A fruitefull meditation
1603
The poesie of floured prayers
1611
A pleasant comedy entituled: An humerous dayes myrth
1599
The survey of popery
1596
Meditations upon the hundred and sixteene psalme
1607
The fayre mayde of the Exchange
1607
The works of Samuel Daniel
1601
A vvarning for faire vvomen
1599
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