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Herōologia anglica : hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum aliqout [sic] anglorum qui floruerunt ab Anno Cristi M.D. usq' ad presentem annum M.D.C.XX : vivae effigies vitae et elogia : duobus tomis / authore H.H. anglo brittano.

Accession number
PML 2840
Creator
Holland, Henry, 1583-1650?
Published
[Arnhem] : Impensis Crispini Passaei calcographus et Jansonii bibliopolae arnhemiensis, [1620].
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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.
Includes leaves of prefatory material often missing because of critical remarks about Queen Mary.
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 probably bound after parens4, a cancel] A-V⁶ chi²[-chi2, a blank leaf?].
Includes index of names on final leaf.
Description
2 v. in 1 ([20], 240, [2] p.), [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports. (engravings) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Provenance
Lord Gosford's copy (bookplate); James Toovey; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Brown morocco, gold-tooled.
Classification
Department