The historie of Guicciardin, conteining the vvares of Italie and other partes, continued for many yeares vnder sundry kings and princes, together with the variations and accidents of the same, deuided into twenty bookes and also the argumentes, vvith a table at large expressing the principall matters through the vvhole historie / Reduced into English by Geffray Fenton.

  • Francesco Guicciardini
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1579
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The historie of Guicciardin, conteining the vvares of Italie and other partes, continued for many yeares vnder sundry kings and princes, together with the variations and accidents of the same, deuided into twenty bookes and also the argumentes, vvith a table at large expressing the principall matters through the vvhole historie / Reduced into English by Geffray Fenton. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Historia d'Italia. English

Publication/Creation

Imprinted at London : By Thomas Vautroullier dvvelling in the Blackfriers by Ludgate, 1579.

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5 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves, 1,184 pages, 16 unnumbered pages ; (folio)

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Covers the years 1490-1534
Translated from the French translation of Chomedey, cf. R.B. Gottfried, Geoffrey Fenton's "Historie of Guicciardin", p. 12
Signatures: *⁶ A-5F⁶ 5G⁴ 5H⁸ (1 r. and v., 5H8 v., blank)
Printer's device on t.p. (McKerrow 170), and p. 1184 (McKerrow 179)
Various errors in pagination
Includes index
Copy 1. Supplier/ Donor: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 5 - 10 December 1898. First (blank?) leaf wanting. Binding: 16th century sheep over boards. Book label of William Morris Kelmscott House. With catalogue card of Sydney Cockerell.

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STC 12458a
Folger. Printed books 12:202
ESTC S116665
STC (2nd ed.), 12458

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