Shelfmark
Cg.3.2.21
Author
Title
Coryats crudities; hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia co[m]monly called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling members of this kingdome.
Varying form of title
Three crude veines are presented in this booke following
Varying form of title
Posthuma fragmenta poematum Georgii Coryati
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : [Printed by VVilliam Stansby for the author, anno domini], 1611.
Physical description
[196], 364, [23], 366-393, [23], 395-398, 403-655, [51]p, [5] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (port.) ; 4to.
Note
The title page is engraved; it and three of the other plates or illustrations are signed by William Hole. Imprint from leaf following engraved title page, which reads: Three crude veines are presented in this booke following ... a most elegant oration, first written in the Latine tongue by Hermannus Kirchnerus ... Another also composed by the author of the former, in praise of trauell of Germanie ... Then ... the posthume poems of the authors father ...
Note
Printer's and publisher's names from STC.
Note
Signatures: pi1 ²pi1 a-b8 ²b4 c-g8 h-l4 B-C8 D8(D1 + [chi]3 signed: D1, D2, unsigned) E-3C8 3D4 [3E]¹ (signed Eee3), [3F]¹.
Note
"Posthuma fragmenta poematum Georgii Coryati" has separate dated title page; register is continuous.
Note
Includes index.
Note
With a final note apologizing for the errata, followed by an errata leaf.
Note
Leaf a3 is known in 3 states: state 1 has an ornamental tailpiece and no verses by Ben Jonson; state 2 has the Jonson verses but no horizonal rule between the end of the "D" distich and the large, centred Roman "E"; state 3 has a horizonal rule between the end of the "D" distich and the large, centred Roman "E". ECL copy is state 2.
Note
Leaf 3A4 is known in two states: in state 1, line 12 reads "Baron the Lord Lisle"; in state 2, line 12 reads "illustrious Robert Sidney Vicount Lisle". ECL copy is state 2.
Note
ECL copy has the corrected states of gathering ²b⁴.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 5808; Pforzheimer, 218; ESTC S108716
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1966. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1063:01).
Provenance
Storer bequest label dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Binding
18th century gold-tooled calf. Geometric pattern of interlocking fillets.
Copy-specific note
Extra-illustrated with 11 loosely inserted woodcut and engraved portraits from various unidentified sources (mostly in Latin, one in French).
Copy-specific note
Gathering ²b⁴ misbound after a3.
Subject
Europe Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Stansby, William, active 1597 - 1638 printer.
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--name
Hole, William, ? - d. 1624 engraver.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B14096