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The Serpent of Devision. Wherein is conteined the true History or Mappe of Romes overthrowe ... : [written or translated by J. Lydgate]. Whereunto is annexed the Tragedye [in five acts and in verse] of Gorboduc, sometime King of this Land, and of his two Sonnes, Ferrex and Porrex. (Whereof three Actes were written by T. Norton, and the two last by T. Sackvyle).

Accession number
PML 6420
Published
London : E. Allde, for J. Perrin, 1590.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
The Serpent of Devision is the same work as one printed by P. Treverys in Southwark about 1520, entitled: "A lytle treatyse entytuled the damage and destruccyon in Realmes"
Title A[superscript]1, verso blank; To the Reader A[superscript]2; Text A[superscript]8-C[superscript]4m4s.
Edition 2, without the 2nd part, Gorbuduc, called for by the title page.
Description
2 pt.
Provenance
Irwin collection; Philip Bliss's copy.
Binding
Red morocco by Duprez Lahey.
Classification
Book
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