Accession number
PML 6227
Creator
Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.
Published
[London] : [For Gabriel Simson and William White?], [1590?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Collation: [fleuron]1 A-B⁴ ²B-H⁴, with title page singleton before [fleuron]1.
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy with engraved map of the world bound before A4, and 4 other plates (2 bifolia) bound after H4.
Publishers' names and publication date conjectured by STC.
Second edition, revised from the first.
The plates, by William Rogers, based on those in STC 3850 attributed to Jodocus Hondius the Elder, are: the title page; "The greatnes of Nabuchadnezars empire"; "The empire of Rome, that crucified our Lorde"; "In the image and fower beastes"; "An abridgement of Iudahs stories" and "A map of the earth with names (the most) from Scriptures", folded. The latter is printed from the same plate as that in STC 3850, additionally worked by Rogers.
Very rare on vellum.
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy with engraved map of the world bound before A4, and 4 other plates (2 bifolia) bound after H4.
Publishers' names and publication date conjectured by STC.
Second edition, revised from the first.
The plates, by William Rogers, based on those in STC 3850 attributed to Jodocus Hondius the Elder, are: the title page; "The greatnes of Nabuchadnezars empire"; "The empire of Rome, that crucified our Lorde"; "In the image and fower beastes"; "An abridgement of Iudahs stories" and "A map of the earth with names (the most) from Scriptures", folded. The latter is printed from the same plate as that in STC 3850, additionally worked by Rogers.
Very rare on vellum.
Description
[74] p., [6] leaves of plates (1 folded) : engravings ; 22 x 16 cm
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
Gilt-tooled limp vellum.
Classification
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Department