Accession number
PML 145560
Creator
Holland, Henry, 1583-1650?
Published
[Arnhem] : Impensis Crispini Passaei calcographus et Jansonii bibliopolae arnhemiensis, [1620]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
1st ed.; 1st printed collection of English portraits.
H.H. is Henry Holland (see STC, which gives him as co-publisher, in London).
"AB" monogram after text in portrait engravings may stand for H. Holland, "Anglo Brittano" (note "A.B." signature after poems on p. [17]).
T.p. is engraved, not included in pagination (emblematic t.p. in black and red, probably by Willem van de Passe (see Franken), with inset map of the British Isles and city view of London and the Thames).
Pages 21, 25, 36, 38, 42, 47, 102-108, 235 misnumbered p. 16, 37, 48, 47, 24, 38, 103-109, 135.
Engravings by Crispijn, Willem, and Magdalena van de Passe.
Total of 65 portraits.
List of published works at end of entry for each author.
Text in Latin; includes laudatory poems.
Paged continuously, with half-title for v. 2.
Signatures: parens¹⁰ [-parens1, -parens5, -parens6] A-V⁶ chi²[-chi2, a blank leaf?].
Includes index of names on final leaf.
Library's copy lacks plate of Elizabeth I's tomb and six prefatory pages.
H.H. is Henry Holland (see STC, which gives him as co-publisher, in London).
"AB" monogram after text in portrait engravings may stand for H. Holland, "Anglo Brittano" (note "A.B." signature after poems on p. [17]).
T.p. is engraved, not included in pagination (emblematic t.p. in black and red, probably by Willem van de Passe (see Franken), with inset map of the British Isles and city view of London and the Thames).
Pages 21, 25, 36, 38, 42, 47, 102-108, 235 misnumbered p. 16, 37, 48, 47, 24, 38, 103-109, 135.
Engravings by Crispijn, Willem, and Magdalena van de Passe.
Total of 65 portraits.
List of published works at end of entry for each author.
Text in Latin; includes laudatory poems.
Paged continuously, with half-title for v. 2.
Signatures: parens¹⁰ [-parens1, -parens5, -parens6] A-V⁶ chi²[-chi2, a blank leaf?].
Includes index of names on final leaf.
Library's copy lacks plate of Elizabeth I's tomb and six prefatory pages.
Description
2 v. in 1 ([20], 240, [2] p.), [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. (engravings) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Provenance
"D'Alge" (signature on t.p.); Marquess of Hastings (sale note on flyleaf); John Hely-Hutchinson (bookplate); Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Black morocco, gold-tooled.
Classification
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