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Record Nr.

UNISA996396151103316

Autore

Bolton Edmund <1575?-1633?>

Titolo

Nero Cæsar, or Monarchie depraued· [[electronic resource] ] : an historical worke· dedicated to the D of Buckingham L Admirall. Whereunto beside otherthings [sic], is now newly added the authors priuat account, to k· Iames, concerning ye same, together with a parallel of places in Polybius & Florus. openning ye way of best profit in historie, to Mr. Endymion Porter heretofore, and now to all. By the translatour of L· Florus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : [Printed by Thomas Snodham and Bernard Alsop], M dCXXVII [1627]

Descrizione fisica

[24], 288, 16 p. : ill. (metal cuts)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The translator of Lucius Florus = Edmund Bolton. The dedication is signed: Philonactophil.

The title page is engraved and signed "Fr: Delaram sculptor". The roman numeral date is made with turned C's.

Printers' names from STC 3221; "Alsop pr[inted]. B-M, Snodham the rest".

"An historical parallel" (caption title) begins new pagination; register is continuous.

A reissue, with new preliminaries (printed by Augustine Mathewes), added quires 2P-2Q, and engraved title page altered, of the 1624 edition. Some copies have the original 1624 letterpress title page remaining.

Variant 1: title page in another state, with "work" in line 6 and lacking most of the punctuation. Variant 2: lacking the engraved medallions on p. 1, 64, et al.

Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0021