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The life of Alexander the Great

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Type of record: Book

Title: The life of Alexander the Great

Other titles: Historia Alexandri Magni

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Lt/CUR

Creator(s): Curtius Rufus, Quintus

Related people: Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C

Publisher: Printed for Francis Saunders

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1690

Language: English

Size and medium: [25], 418 [ie. 426], [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283002

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001651629705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

Description

A reissue of the sheets of 1687, with a new printed title and an engraved frontispiece title, both dated 1690, and an 'Epistle dedicatory' addressed to the Queen, signed: N. Tate. These preliminaries make up sig. ¹A (8 leaves). The original title-leaf and preliminaries to the edition of 1687 make up sig. ²A (4 leaves). Retained are the 'errata' leaf, which here follows sig. ²A4 (but reversed, so that the 'errata' occupy the verso), and Cownly's booklist on Ee2 recto.


As in the earlier edition, sig. H5 is a cancel, but sig. N contains the following errors in pagination (corrected in the copy of 1687): 198 (for 178), 199 (179), 202 (182), 203 (183), 206 (186), 207 (187), 210 (190), 211 (191).


Indexed in: Wing C7698.

Additional description

With armorial stamp on front cover and monogram consisting of the letters A, C and V on the back. On the paste-down at the front is the signature R. Windram , with the date 1862. The ink-stamp of this owner (a bookseller?), reading R. Windram, The Library, 20 Warwick St. (?), West Leamington , is on ¹A3 recto

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