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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)4
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Thabridgemente [sic] of the histories of Trogus Pompeius, gathered and written in the Laten [sic] tung

Justinus, Marcus Junianus; Trogus Pompeius; Golding, Arthur (1536-1606)

1570

An epitome of: Trogus, Pompeius. Historiae Philippicae. The two leaves between 161 and 163 are both numbered 159. Many errors in foliation, especially after f.158.

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Magna Charta cum statutis tum antiquis tum recentibus, maximopere animo tenendis, nunc demum ad unum, tipis aedita per Richardum Tottill

1587

Signatures: [par.]⁸, A-Hh⁸, Ii². A variant of STC 9282 without the ̀Cum privilegio' statement on the title-page and lacking the last two leaves with the colophon, possibly never present.

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Introductiones apotelesmaticæ elegantes, in chyromantiam, physiognomiam, astrologiam naturalem, complexiones hominum, naturas planetarum : cum periaxiomatibus de faciebus signorum, & canonibus de ægritudinibus, nusquam fere simili tractata compendio

Indagine, Johannes ab (1537); Baldung, Hans (1545); Weiditz, Hans

1522

First edition. Colophon: Impensis autoris libri, opera vero Ioannis Scotti Argentorat. sub annum Domini M.D.XXII. Illustrated by Hans Baldung Grien and Hans Weiditz.

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Rerum anglicarum libri quinque : recens ceu è tenebris eruti, & in studiosorum gratiam in lucem dati

William of Newburgh (1136-1201?)

1567

Title vignette (printer's device). First edition. Cf. NUC pre-1956. Signatures: A-Z⁸, Aa-Mm⁸. Initials; tail-pieces. Last 2 leaves blank. Includes index.

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La fida pastora : comœdia pastoralis

Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Fanshawe, Richard (1608-1666)

1658

Frontispiece engraved by Rob. Vaughan. Latin translation by Richard Fanshawe of John Fletcher's Faithfull shepherdesse. Not to be confused with Fanshawe's English translation of The pastorfido, the ...

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Epigrammata Thomæ Mori Angli, viri eruditionis pariter ac virtutis nomine clarissimi, Angliæque olim Cancellarii

More, Thomas Sir, Saint (1478-1535); Marshall, William (fl. 1617-1650); Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)

1638

Compiled by Desiderius Erasmus. In verse. With an additional title page, engraved and signed: W. Marshall sculpsit. Printer's name from STC. The first leaf is blank. Running title reads: Tho...

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Aemilii Probi viri clarissimi De vita excellentium liber incipit feliciter

Nepos, Cornelius; Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis Baron (1880-1946); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930); Riviere & Son

Anno a Christi incarnatione. M.CCCC.LXXI. VIII. idvs Martias. [8 March 1471]

No signatures or foliation. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on leaf [53r] reads: Probi Aemilii De virorvm excellentivm vita per. M. Nicolavm Ienson Venetiis opvs foeliciter impressvm est anno a Ch...

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Clarissimi pictoris et geometræ Alberti Dureri, De varietate figurarum et flexuris partium ac gestibus imaginum : libri duo, qui prioribus De symmetria quondam editis

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Camerarius, Joachim (1500-1574)

1534

Place of publication and publicher from colophon. Pages [5]-[6], [55]-[56], [57]-[58], and [97]-[98] printed on folded leaves. Errata on p. [110].

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The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with divers addicions, whiche were never in printe before: with the siege and destruccion of the worthy citee of Thebes, compiled by Ihon Lidgate, Monke of Berie. As in the table more plainly dooeth appere

Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Thynne, William (1546); Stow, John (1525?-1605); Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?)

1561

Edited by William Thynne, who is named on [fleuron]2r; with additions, mostly spurious, by John Stow. Mostly in verse. Contains a number of non-Chaucerian works. Imprint from colophon (printed i...

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The decameron : containing an hundred pleasant nouels. Wittily discoursed, betweene seaven honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen

Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Florio, John (1553?-1625)

1620

First edition. Anonymous. By Giovanni Boccaccio. Translation sometimes attributed to John Florio. Each part has title-page with engraved border. The first volume has a final errata leaf; the l...

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