Shelfmark
Fd.3.12(02)
Author
Uniform title
[Historiae. Liber 1-4. English]
Title
The ende of Nero and beginning of Galba. Fower bookes of the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The life of Agricola.
Edition
The second edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Printed at London : By Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton., M.D.XCVIII. [1598]
Physical description
[6], 12, 227, [3] p. : ill. (metal cut) ; fol.
Note
Head- and tail-piece, initials, marginal notes.
Note
Issued with "The annales of Cornelius Tacitus" (STC 23644).
Note
The last leaf is blank.
Note
Place of publication and printer's and publishers' names from colophon on leaf V5v.
Note
Translator's dedication signed: Henry Sauile.
Note
Illustration of a Roman encampment as described by Polybius, leaf T2.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 23643
Citation/references note
ESTC, S117603
Provenance
Binding bears initials "I F".
Binding
Contemporary English limp parchment case; yapp edges; gold tooled single fillet border and inner frame with fleurons at each corner; initials "I F" gold tooled on either side of central ornament; remains of green ties; gold tooled double fillet and arabesque ornament on spine; modern endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: En.4.3.
Copy-specific note
Bound with "The annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The description of Germanie", published in the same year.
Subject
Subject
Rome History Flavians, 69-96.
Added entry--name
Norton, John, ? - 1612 publisher.
Added entry--name
Norton, Bonham, 1565 - 1635 publisher.
Added entry--name
Bollifant, Edmund, ? - d. 1602 printer.
Added entry--name
Savile, Henry, 1549 - 1622 Sir, translator.
Added entry--name
Tacitus, Cornelius. Agricola. English
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B28609