The commentaries of C. Julius Caesar : of his warres in Gallia, and the civil warres betwixt him and Pompey
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Type of record: Book
Title: The commentaries of C. Julius Caesar : of his warres in Gallia, and the civil warres betwixt him and Pompey
Other titles: Edmundes's Observations on Casesar's Commentaries
Classmark: BC Lt quarto CAE
Creator(s): Caesar, Sir Julius (1558-1636)
Additional creator(s): Caesar, Sir Julius (1558-1636) (Other); Place, John (Other); Edmondes, Sir Clement (1622) (Other); Hiritius Aulus (Other); Camden, William (1551-1623) (Other); Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619) (Other); Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637) (Other); Sylvester, Josuah (1563-1618) (Other); Daniel, Roger (Other); Twyford, Henry (Other); Ekins, Nathaniel (Other)
Related people: Caesar, Julius; Caesar, Julius; Pompey, the Great
Publisher: printed by R. Daniel, and are to be sold by Henry Tvvyford in Vine-Court Middle Temple, Nathaniel Ekins at the Gunne in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Iohn Place at Furnivalls Inne Gate in Holburn
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1655
Language: English
Size and medium: 48 unnumbered pages, 196 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 142, 10 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/269945
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017855889705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
The first gathering appears to consist of 6ff.: the additional engraved title-page; the plate of Juilius Caesar; a3-4 (dedication and commendatory verses); printed title-page; and "Caesaris elogium".
The additional engraved title-page is the second state of the title-page of 1609. See A.F. Johnson, Anon., no.8.
Nine of the plates are printed in folio and folded. In some copies, they are bound as double plates.
Added engraved title page for Edmondes' Observations: Observations upon Caesar's commentaries. By Clement Edmundes.
Plates are engraved, include a portrait of Julius Caesar.
Commendatory poems by William Camden, Samuel Daniel, Josuah Sylvester and Ben Jonson: 4th prelim. leaf.
"Observations upon Caesars Commentaries of the civil warres betwixt him and Pompey," by Clement Edmondes and "A continuation of the warres in Gallia, beginning where Caesar left, and deducing the history to the time of the civile warres," written by Hirtius Pansa (i.e. Aulus Hirtius) have separate dated title pages; new pagination begins with "Observations"; register is continuous; "The manner of our modern training" (caption title) has separate pagination.
Also has title: Edmundes's Observations on Casesar's Commentaries.
Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C199.
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