Fd.3.12(02)
[Historiae. Liber 1-4. English]
The ende of Nero and beginning of Galba. Fower bookes of the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The life of Agricola.
The second edition.
Printed at London : By Edm. Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton., M.D.XCVIII. [1598]
[6], 12, 227, [3] p. : ill. (metal cut) ; fol.
Head- and tail-piece, initials, marginal notes.
Issued with "The annales of Cornelius Tacitus" (STC 23644).
The last leaf is blank.
Place of publication and printer's and publishers' names from colophon on leaf V5v.
Translator's dedication signed: Henry Sauile.
Illustration of a Roman encampment as described by Polybius, leaf T2.
STC (2nd ed.), 23643
ESTC, S117603
Binding bears initials "I F".
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.
Previous shelfmark: En.4.3.
Bound with "The annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The description of Germanie", published in the same year.
Rome History Flavians, 69-96.
Norton, John, ? - 1612 publisher.
Norton, Bonham, 1565 - 1635 publisher.
Bollifant, Edmund, ? - d. 1602 printer.
Savile, Henry, 1549 - 1622 Sir, translator.
Tacitus, Cornelius. Agricola. English
England London.
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