Accession number:
PML 77283
Published:
Lugduni : Apud Gryphium, 1536.
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of Paul Needham, 1981.
Description:
155, [5] pages ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Gryphius published in the same year the author's Christiados libri sex, which together with the works printed in this volume represents the author's complete literary output to the time, or nearly so.
Entirely in verse.
Signatures: A-K⁸ (G4 unsigned).
The last 5 pages are blank except for printer's device on p. [160].
Binding:
19th-century brown calf by Francis Bedford, preserving original 16th-century French (Paris) brown calf side panels, gold tooled with title inscription, by Etienne Roffet.
Provenance:
Unidentified purchase inscription: "XIII Kal. Octob. c/[con] /[con] LXXV [1585?] 4 sd" (front endleaf 4 verso); Hugh Perkins, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase/binding note: "bought at Bird's sale & rebacked for me by F. Bedford, the original sides preserved. H.P." (front endleaf 1 recto); M.S. Slocum (Miles Standish, 1887-1956), Pasadena, signature (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Chris Coover as the gift of Paul Needham, 1981.
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