The lyves of holy sainctes, prophetes, patriarches, and others, contayned in Holye Scripture : so farre forth as expresse mention of them is delyvered unto us in Gods Worde, with the interpretacion of their names : collected and gathered into an alphabeticall order, to the great commoditie of the Chrystian reader / by Iohn Marbecke ...

Accession number

PML 17618

Creator

Merbecke, John, approximately 1510-approximately 1585.

Published

[London] : Imprinted at London by Henry Denham, and Richarde VVatkins, 1574.

Notes

First edition.
Arms of the dedicatee, Lord Burleigh, on t.p.; historiated initial.
Collation: A¹, leaf with printer's band; title, s.s. verso blank; epistle dedicatorie: A²-A³; to the reader: A⁴-A⁵; text: p. 1-328 (B¹-Y⁵).
Imprint from colophon.

Description

12 unnumbered, 328 pages ; 18 cm

Inscriptions/Markings

"The Fonthill Copy" inscribed on flyleaf. Clarence S. Bement, armorial bookplate.

Binding

Tree calf.

Classification

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