The historie of Guicciardin : containing the warres of Italie and other partes, continued for manie yeares under sundrie kings and princes, together with the variations and accidents of the same: and also the arguments, with a table at large expressing the principall matters through the whole historie / Reduced into English by Geffray Fenton, mon heur viendra.

Accession number: 
PML 77531
Author: 
Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540.
Published: 
Imprinted at London : by Richard Field, dwelling in the Blackfriers by Ludgate, 1599.
Description: 
[4] leaves, 943 (i. e. 901), [11] p. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Notes: 

Signatures: A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Zzz, Aaaa-Hhhh⁶ (A¹, Hhhh⁶ blank)
Covers the years 1490-1534.
Printer's device on t.-p. Side-notes. Many errors in paging.
Includes index.
Head-pieces; initials.
Translation of: La historia di Italia of which books 1-16 were first published at Florence, 1561, and books 17-20 were published in 1579. First English edition was published in 1579.

Binding: 
Contemporary calf, F/heart stamp in center of both covers (Oldham EBSB, no. 1088, pl. LXI).
Provenance: 
From the library of K.I. Nulman.
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