The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall), countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mandkinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction : necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets : wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / by Edward Topsell.

Title vignette: The gorgon.
Largely a translation of book 1 of Gesner's Historia animalium, with additions by Topsell.
Seen in various states, with different title vignettes, and different settings of B2 and B6; in this copy, the catchword on B2r is "gers", and the setting in B6r line 1 reads "crowne".
Errors in pagination.
Signatures: A⁶ [par.]⁶ 2 [par.]⁸ chi² B-2V⁶ 3A-3X⁶ 3Y⁸.
Library's copy lacks the extra leaf following F4 with heading "The Picture of the vulger Bugill Folio 57", present in some copies; some leaves cropped and remargined, including the woodcut of the camelopardal on K2v, with the lost portion of the image reproduced in pen and ink.
"A table of the names of all the beastes contayned in this hystory, in divers languages"--[10] p. at end.