Shelfmark
Ge.4.14
Author
Uniform title
[De ratione et methodo legendi historias dissertatio. English]
Title
The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiastical histories. In which the most excellent historians are reduced into the order in which they are successively to be read; and the judgments of learned men, concerning each of them, subjoin'd. By Degoræus Wheare, Camden reader of history in Oxford. To which is added, an appendix concerning the historians of particular nations, as well ancient as modern. By Nicholas Horseman. Made English, and enlarged, by Edmund Bohun, Esq; author of the Address to the freemen and freeholders..
Varying form of title
Caption title: Mantissa: or, An addition concerning the historians of particular nations
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed by M. Flesher, for Charles Brome, at the Gun at the west-end of St. Paul's Church-yard., 1685..
Physical description
[48], 362, [14] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Note
A translation of "De ratione et methodo legendi historias dissertatio" (1623; STC 25325). Subsequently published as "Relectiones hyemales" (1637; STC 25328).
Note
Includes "Mantissa: or, An addition concerning the historians of particular nations ... by Nicholas Horseman" (caption title): pp. 179-224.
Note
Title printed within a double-ruled border.
Note
With a final license-to-print leaf, reading: Licensed to be published, July 10. 1685. Ro. L'Estrange.
Note
Signatures: A⁸ a-b⁸ B-2A⁸ 2B⁴.
Note
Printed marginalia.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R6163
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), W1592
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
Ms. at head of title-page: James Douch Pr. 3s- 6d.
Binding
Contemporary sprinkled calf; boards have double-blind-fillet border frames with small ornaments at inner corners; four raised bands; red goatskin spine label with gilt title: "Bohum of histori"; board edges tooled in gold; text block edges sprinkled red.
Copy-specific note
License-to-print leaf bound at beginning of text.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fh.4.08.
Subject
Historians Early works to 1800.
Subject
Historiography Early works to 1800.
Subject
History Study and teaching Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Bohun, Edmund, 1645 - 1699 translator.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--name
Flesher, Miles, active 1682 - 1687 printer.
Added entry--name
Brome, Charles, fl. 1687 - 1711 publisher.
Added entry--name
Douch, James former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B48532