Illustrium maioris Brittaniae scriptorum, hoc est Angliæ, Cambriæ ac Scotiæ summariū, in quasdam centurias divisum, cum diversitate doctrinarū atq; annorū supputatione per omnes ætates a Iapheto ... ad annum domini M.D.XLVIII / Autore Joanne Balæo Sudovolca.

  • Bale, John, 1495-1563.
Date:
31 July 1548
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Gippeswici [Ipswich] : per Joannem Overton, 31 July 1548.

Physical description

12 unnumbered pages, 255 pages, 1 unnumbered leaves : illustrations, woodcuts ; (4to)

Notes

Imprint from colophon, fol. 248 recto
Imprint considered fictitious by STC, giving Wesel : D. van Straten; BM, giving Wesel : Theodoricus Plateanus; Adams (as STC); for further discussion see Mansell entry based on Folger card catalogue
First printing, first state; later state with date 1549
Signatures: A⁴ +-+2⁴ ²A⁴ B-Sss⁴ Sss4 blank
Vignettes: author presenting book to Edward VI, title and +2 4 verso; head of Christ and cherubs, +2 3 recto; port. of Wycliff, +2 4 recto

References note

STC 1296
Mansell 32:202
BM 10:564
Folger 2:249
ESTC S100599
Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 1295
STC (2nd ed.), 1295

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    EPB/B/651

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