Accession number
PML 2841
Creator
Holland, Henry, 1583-1650?
Published
[Arnhem] : Impensis Crispini Passaei calcographus et Jansonii bibliopolae arnhemiensis, [1620]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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. probably by Willem van de Passe (see Franken), with inset map of the British Isles and city view of London and the Thames).
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.
Tipped-in at front: "A list of the portraits in Holland's Herōologia and of the places whence taken, extracted from the margin of a copy formerly in the possession of P. Mariette," [1] leaf printed both sides. London : Printed for R. Triphook ... by Harding and Wright .., 1809.
Library's copy lacks 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. probably by Willem van de Passe (see Franken), with inset map of the British Isles and city view of London and the Thames).
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.
Tipped-in at front: "A list of the portraits in Holland's Herōologia and of the places whence taken, extracted from the margin of a copy formerly in the possession of P. Mariette," [1] leaf printed both sides. London : Printed for R. Triphook ... by Harding and Wright .., 1809.
Library's copy lacks six prefatory pages.
Description
2 v. in 1 ([20], 240, [2] p.), [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. (engravings) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Provenance
Matthew Wilson (armorial bookplate, motto "res non verba"; Frances Mary Richardson Currer (armorial bookplate); Theodore Irwin; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Calf, covers hatched, gold-tooled.
Classification
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