"Certaine preambles here followe, gathered by R. Eden heretofore, for the better vnderstanding of the whole worke": leaves 1-7., First complete English translation of the eight Decades. The four translated by Eden had appeared as early as 1555, and again in 1577 with an abridgment of Decades 5-8., First preliminary leaf blank; has signature A., Imperfect: 1st, 3rd and 4th p.l., and leaves 158, 287, 288, 293, 294 (signatures A1,3,4, X8, Pp1,2,7,8) wanting: title-page and many leaves bled., and Signatures: A4B-Z8Aa-Ss8.
Publisher:
Printed for Thomas Adams,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration, America--Early accounts to 1600, and West Indies--History
BEIN Ih D718 632C: Imperfect 1st l. (large signature A within frame) and F4, blank, wanting. Frontispiece inlaid., Described in Wise, T.J. Catalogue of the Ashley library. London, 1922, II, p. 52, and Keynes, Bibliography ... of ... Donne. 1914, no. 26. Wise calls this 1st ed., 2d issue; Keynes calls it second edition., Head pieces., Signatures: 4 l. unsigned, B-F4 (last blank)., and Title within double lines.
Publisher:
Printed by B. Alsop, and T. Fawcet, for Beniamin Fisher, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Talbot in Aldersgate-street,
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 Crabbe, George, 1754-1832 Dryden, John, 1631-1700 Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold), 1853-1931 Keats, John, 1795-1821 Morris, Talwin Morris, William, 1834-1896 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Published / Created:
1906
Call Number:
Baskin 340
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
The Warwick library of English literature
Description:
Binding design by Talwin Morris., Bookplate of Leonard and Lisa Baskin. Autograph dated April 18, 1914: Ernest Hesse, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. Advertising on [2] p. at beginning and [4] p. at end not noted in pagination., and Poems by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden, Crabbe, Wordsworth, Keats and William Morris.
Publisher:
Blackie & Son, Limited,
Subject (Name):
Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000--Bookplate
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--Collections and Narrative poetry, English
Charles Lamb's copy, with his signature on t.p. (dated 1798) and notes and underscorings in his hand, and with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notes inside front cover and on p. 3 (1st count). Imperfect: p. 145-146, 171-172, 267-268, 291-292 (1st count) mutilated.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Macock for R. Royston,
Subject (Name):
Lamb, Charles,--1775-1834--Autograph and Lamb, Charles,--1775-1834--Ms. notes
Subject (Topic):
Sermons, English, Theology--Early works to 1800, and Theology--History--17th century