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Vitis Carolin gemma altera
Auspicatissima Ducis Eboracensis genethiliaca decantata ad vada Isidis
Oxoniæ : Excudebant Iohannes Lichfield & Gulielmus Turner, Ann. Dom. 1633.
[104] pages ; 20 cm. (4to.)
Verses celebrating the birth of James II.
Partly in English.
Signatures: A-E⁴ 2E⁴ F-H⁴ h⁴ I-L⁴ (-L3,4, +"L3".1).
The second of three states; L3,4 are cancels; text ends on L4v; L4r catchword: When.
ESTC, S123228
STC (2nd ed.), 19035a
Inscription on second flyleaf: Humphry ffrances 18th fbr 1701. Ejus liber.
Inscription on first flyleaf: Northeswortha probes hunc in sua jura libellum ponit, ut[?] et sibi vult hoc Heliconis operum.
Booklabel recording donation to Eton College by John Reynolds in 1751.
Contemporary dark brown calf; blind tooled triple fillet frame; blind tooled single fillet on board edges; blind tooled double fillet and single fillet on spine, with compartments of hatching at head and tail and further hatching on joints; red morocco spine label with gold tooled triple fillet and title; four raised bands; printers' waste (a small format edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin) as endpapers; red sprinkled edges.
Sixth of 8 items bound in volume.
Handwritten list of titles in volume on second flyleaf.
Previous shelfmark: Fi.5.2.
James, 1633 - 1701 II, King of England,
Lichfield, John, fl. 1605 - 1635 printer.
Turner, William, ? - -1643 printer.
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
England Oxford.
lat
B49514