Accession number
PML 17569
Creator
Harman, Thomas, fl. 1567.
Published
London : Wylliam Gryffith, 1567.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911. NNPNM
Notes
Only 2 other copies reported in ESTC in 2008.
Second edition (no copies of 1st, 1566 ed exist?).
Woodcuts.
Signatures: A-F́⁴ G⁶
The pages have been trimmed to text and skilfully remargined.
Imprint: "Fletestret at the sign of the falcon ... and are to be solde at his shoppe in Saynt Dunstones Churche yarde. in the West."
Colophon: "Imprinted at London in Fletestrete at the signe of the Faulcon by Wylliam gryffith. Anno Domni, 1567. the eight of January."
A folded leaf, "Here begynneth the.xxiiii. orders of knaues" tipped in at end. According to a note in Belle Greene's hand, it had been loose in the Heber collection but was tipped in at the time of the present binding, which was made for Hoe. This leaf should be separately identified as PML 17569.2.
The xxiiii orders is anonymous; attributed to John Awdelay by STC.
STC provides imprint for xxiiii orders: [London: J. Awdelay, ca. 1561]
Second edition (no copies of 1st, 1566 ed exist?).
Woodcuts.
Signatures: A-F́⁴ G⁶
The pages have been trimmed to text and skilfully remargined.
Imprint: "Fletestret at the sign of the falcon ... and are to be solde at his shoppe in Saynt Dunstones Churche yarde. in the West."
Colophon: "Imprinted at London in Fletestrete at the signe of the Faulcon by Wylliam gryffith. Anno Domni, 1567. the eight of January."
A folded leaf, "Here begynneth the.xxiiii. orders of knaues" tipped in at end. According to a note in Belle Greene's hand, it had been loose in the Heber collection but was tipped in at the time of the present binding, which was made for Hoe. This leaf should be separately identified as PML 17569.2.
The xxiiii orders is anonymous; attributed to John Awdelay by STC.
STC provides imprint for xxiiii orders: [London: J. Awdelay, ca. 1561]
Description
[60] p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Provenance
From the collections of George Steevens ("G. Steevens" stamped on verso of t.p. above the horizontal broom, above the colophon of this title and at the end of the single sheet), Duke of Roxburghe (sold 1812), Bishop Heber (sold 1834), Robert Hoe (bookplate), and Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Nineteenth-century red morocco binding, gilt, by S. David, for Robert Hoe.
Classification
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Department