Ptōchomouseion = The poore mans librarie (v.1-2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Ptōchomouseion = The poore mans librarie (v.1-2)
Other titles: Poore mans librarie; Poore mans librarie
Classmark: BC GB C16/17 q/ALL
Creator(s): Alley, William (1510?-1570)
Additional creator(s): Day, John (1522-1584) (Other)
Related people: Day, John
Publisher: By Iohn Daye
Publication city: Imprinted at London
Date(s): 1571
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 v ([2], 217, [1], 110, [12] leaves)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/297997
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003815789705181
Description
G.A. = William Alley.
First word of title in Greek characters.
Date from colophon.
Title within engraved border.
The second volume has divisional title page and separate foliation beginning on 2A1r.
Colophon reads: At London Printed by Iohn Daye, dvvelling ouer Aldersgate beneath Saint Martins. 1571. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per decennium. With woodcut portrait of printer.
Signatures: A-Y⁶ 2A-2N⁶ 2O-2P⁴; 2A⁶ 2B-2Y⁴ 3A-3H⁴.
Poore mans librarie.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.) 375.
Additional description
Outer and lower margins of title-leaf repaired. Wormholes in first 30 leaves affecting text holes in leaf DD.iiii of vol.2, some affecting text. Contemporary (?) ms. inscription on flyleaf reads: This booke I borrowed of Sr. John Riuers. N. Riuers , with an early library press-mark in top corner above it. Bookplate of Charles St. Barbe, F.A.S. inside front cover
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