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The low-country commonwealth : contayninge an exact discription of the eight United Provinces now made free

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Type of record: Book

Title: The low-country commonwealth : contayninge an exact discription of the eight United Provinces now made free

Other titles: Grand chronique, ancienne et moderne, de Hollande

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Trv/LEP

Creator(s): Le Petit, Jean François (1546-1615)

Additional creator(s): Grimeston, Edward (Other)

Related people: Grimeston, Edward

Publisher: Printed by G. Eld

Publication city: [London]

Date(s): 1609

Language: English

Size and medium: [8], 303 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/279726

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001044919705181

Description

Running title: The Belgick common-weale.


Title-page engraved (A.F. Johnson, Anonymous no.10, a reduced copy of C. van Sichem II's title-page for Grimston's own 'General historie of the Netherlands', 1608, and the French original of Le Petit, 1601).


Indexed in: References: Goldsmiths' Lib. cat : 380.


Indexed in: References: STC : 15485, ignoring the hyphen between 'Eld' and the date of the imprint.


Indexed in: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 380.

Additional description

Fold on p.163, affecting printing of final word and catchword. Signature of Wm. Prythergh, 1647, on first page of dedication, and on last page MS. inscription in different hand on flyleaf at end, 'Oppianus & Xenophon scripserunt Cunegetica' and price,'1-7-6' various initials and annotations throughout. Holes and tears in title-leaf and last 2ff, besides flyleaves. Pieces torn from original vellum binding at front and back

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