Shelfmark
Ga.4.14(02)
Author
Uniform title
[Secreti. Part 2. English]
Title
The seconde part of the Secretes of Maister Alexis of Piemont, by hym collected out of diuers excellent authors, and newly translated out of Frenche into Englishe. With a generall table of all matters contained in the saied booke./ by Willyam Warde.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Imprinted at London : By Ihon Kyngston, for Ihon VVight, [1580].
Physical description
75, [5] leaves ; 21 cm. (4to)
Note
With a final table of contents.
Note
A translation of part 2 of a French version of: Ruscelli, Girolamo. De' secreti del R.D. Alessio Piemontese.
Note
Woodcut title-page vignette; initials; head- and tail-pieces; printer's emblem below colophon on final page.
Note
Publication date taken from STC.
Note
Signatures: A-K8.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.) 303.
Citation/references note
ESTC, S100108
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on title-page verso of first item.
Binding
Contemporary London mid brown calf; blind tooled frame of triple fillet and roll of gateway, fleur-de-lys, pomegranate, and rose, with central diamond of the same tools (roll is HE. b (5) in Oldham's English blind-stamped bindings, identified by Oldham as being from London); blind tooled single fillet on board edges; traces of clasps; beechwood boards; holes in boards for threading sewing supports visible; blind-tooled triple fillet on spine; four raised bands; ms endpapers, now detached; red sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Two leaves of contemporary manuscript notes on medical subjects ('De sensoribus interioribus') used as endpapers at front and rear.
Copy-specific note
Second of four items bound in volume.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dd.5.13.
Subject
Formulas, recipes, etc. Early works to 1800.
Subject
Medicine Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Added entry--name
Ward, William, 1534 - 1609 translator.
Added entry--name
Kingston, John, fl. 1553 - ca. 1584 printer.
Added entry--name
Wight, John, ? - 1589 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B46317