Eliz 163: Bound in contemporary paneled calf, blind tooled on cover and spine. Ownership inscription of Martin Adelt of Smigiel on title page; ownership stamp of the Rehdiger Stadt-Bibliothek zu Breslau on verso of title page. Gift of Walter Jennings., The second edition (first, 1575)., and A collection of laudatory verses addressed to the most notable persons in Europe, including a great many addressed to Queen Elizabeth and others of her court.
Publisher:
Apud Arnoldvm Sittartvm sub scuto Coloniensi, monte divi Hilarij
Plates opposite p. 96 and 98 should be reversed., Elizabethan Club copy: With thirty-two manuscript extracts from Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies, selected by an unidentified 18th-century English reader and written in the margins, perhaps Herbert Randolph's father? Also several pencil notes have been erased., Engraved title vignette (portrait of Horace); illustrated with full-page copperplate engravings., With quotations descriptive of each plate from Horace and other Latin writers, and verses in Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and French, on verso of preceding plate., Pages numbered on letterpress pages (rectos) only, with an engraved illustration opposite., Nagler and Bryan attribute the engraving of the plates to Gijsbert van Veen., Colophon reads: Typis Dauidis Martinij., and Binding: Late 17th-century calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label; covers rubbed and heavily crazed with mottling fluid; rebacked, preserving most of the original spine.
Publisher:
Prostant apud Philippum Lisaert, auctoris aere & cura