Accession number
PML 84664
Creator
Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.
Published
Printed at Antvverp : By Robert Bruney. And to be sold at London ... by Iohn Norton and Iohn Bill., 1605..
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor in memory of her daughter, Barbara Foster Vietor, 1956-1966, 1983.
Notes
Title in red and black.
Title vignette: "Nationum Origo."
Date of publication immediately follows Bruney's name on t.p.
Preface signed: Richard Verstegan [pseud of Richard Rowlands].
Pages 13 and 208 misnumbered 11 and 209 respectively; leaf 2X3 signed 2V3.
Final page is blank.
Coat of arms precedes the table.
"The table or index of svndrie especial pointes touched in this book": p. [3]-[13] at end.
Signatures: [dagger]-3[dagger]⁴ A-Xx⁴
Contains first printed account in English of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, p. 85-87.
Title vignette: "Nationum Origo."
Date of publication immediately follows Bruney's name on t.p.
Preface signed: Richard Verstegan [pseud of Richard Rowlands].
Pages 13 and 208 misnumbered 11 and 209 respectively; leaf 2X3 signed 2V3.
Final page is blank.
Coat of arms precedes the table.
"The table or index of svndrie especial pointes touched in this book": p. [3]-[13] at end.
Signatures: [dagger]-3[dagger]⁴ A-Xx⁴
Contains first printed account in English of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, p. 85-87.
Description
[24], 338, [14] p. : ill., coat of arms ; 18 cm
Provenance
Several cancelled names written on tp, including motto "Dum spiro spero"; some names repeated on p. 54; Graham Pollard (bkplate).
Binding
Vellum, in modern drop-spine case.
Classification
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