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The forest, or Collection of historyes no lesse profitable, then pleasant and necessary, doone out of Frenche into English by Thomas Fortescue.

Accession number
PML 6367
Creator
Mexía, Pedro, 1496?-1552?
Published
London, J. Day, 1576.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Ed. 2.
The title is surrounded by a woodcut border.
Title, in woodcut border with arms of Fortescue on verso; *1; dedication etc. *2-6; Text A-Z, Aa-Pp in 4s, Qq[superscript]3.
Tr. by Thomas Fortescue (fl. 1571) from the French version of Claude Cruget of "Les diverses leçons" from a Spanish original.
Description
ff. (6), 152, (3). Coat-of-arms.
Inscriptions/Markings
W. Withers autograph on title page
Provenance
Irwin collection; With Griswold arms; autograph - W. Withers on t.p.
Binding
Previously bound in russia, with Griswold arms, now in a brown morocco half-binding by Duprez Lahey
Classification
Department