Shelfmark
P.Rox.1946
Author
Title
Two tracts : Affrican and Mensola, an Elizabethan prose version of Il ninfale fiesolano ... and Newes and strange newes from St. Christophers / by Giovanni Boccaccio ; by John Taylor the water poet.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 1946.
Physical description
xxxi, [6] p., 40, [6] leaves, 13, [1] p. : ill., plates, facsims. ; 25 cm.
Series statement
(Roxburghe Club)
Note
Quarter maroon leather binding over buckram.
Note
Facsimile.
Note
Barker, no. 207.
Note
Presented to the Roxburghe Club by C. H. Wilkinson.
Note
Texts originally published at London in 1597 and 1638, respectively.
Ninfale fiesolano translated by John Goubourne from the French prose version by Antoine Guercin du Crest.
"Sixteen of the seventeen illustrations are from the 1568 edition of the Ninfale fiesolano which was printed at Florence by Valente Panizzi."--Introduction.
Provenance
Eton College Library label on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ms. inscription recording presentation to Eton College Library by C. H. Wilkinson?
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Identifier
B35226