Shelfmark
Ag.4.01
Author
Title
The history of the world.
Publication, distribution, etc.
At London : Printed for Walter Burre, 1614.
Physical description
[82], 492, 491-651, [3], 776, [62]p, [16] leaves of plates : 8 maps, genealogical tables ; Fo.
Language
Latin words and passages.
Note
Previously Ed.1.14.
Note
Anonymous author = Walter Raleigh.
Note
"Printed by William Stansby for Walter Burre" --Colophon.
Note
"The first part of the historie of the vvorld ... the third booke" begins new pagination.
Note
Some misnumbering of pages.
Note
The first leaf contains the poem "The minde of the front".
Note
Title-page engraved and signed "Ren: Elstrack".
Note
Includes tables.
Note
Includes indexes.
Note
Includes errata.
Note
Ms. note on flyleaf; ms. markings and notes in text.
Citation/references note
ESTC S116300; STC (2nd ed.) 20637; Pforzheimer 820
Provenance
Bookplate of School Libray, Eton College recording donation to Eton by Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
Hatton bookplate.
Binding
?17th century blind-tooled brown calf.
Binding
Rebacked.
Subject
History, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Burre, Walter publisher, bookseller.
Added entry--name
Elstracke, Renold, active 1590 - 1630 engraver.
Added entry--name
Stansby, William, active 1597 - 1638 printer.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B18411