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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![5 SRS SSI SH : I 21 SIZES MIXED : “ye . x i . ve Romanes warres. both Ciuile and Foren ... Translated out ot diuers Languages and now set forth in Englishe, according to the Greeke text, taken out of a Royall Librarie : by W.. B., stained at top, and vy 4 very slightly defective, four leaves of Table (* 1-4) mis- -bound, the Ha sorg| on al (Part 2) shaved ae hole in a2, rust-hole in d 2, catchword on hh 1 verso cut off, the last two leaves very slightly stained and a minute hole in the last leaf, half calf, R. Farmer's copy, RARE 4to. Imprinted at London by Raulfe Newberrie and Henerie Bynniman. Anno. 1578 » ate ate a 25 by Iohn Haringt0, FIRST EDITION, engraved title (shaved at foot), containing portrait of Harington and his dog Bungay. \46 plates, a few small stains, one causing a slight defect in plate panelled back and ene Oe, 4to. (10h in. by 72 in.) [Colophon] Imprinted at London by Richard Field ... 1591 John Harington. author of The Metamorphosis of Ajax, fist translated book 28 of the Orlando, containing the story of Fiametta, which circulated among the ladies of the Court. Queen Elizabeth, thinking it hkely to corrupt the morals of her ladies, banished him from Court and ordered him, as a penance, as a folio, but this copy is printed on stout paper folded 4to. Kyng of Macedone: of the Embassadors of Venice against the Prince that vnder crafty league with Scanderbeg, layed snares for Christendome : and of Scanderbeg praveng ayde of Chris- tian Princes agaynst periurous murdervng Mahumet and agaynst the old false Christian Duke Mahumetes confederate. With a notable example of Gods Vengeance vppon a faithlesse Kyng, Quene, and her children, Sfncets fetter (A-K 8), one or two small holes in title, marginal note on £1 verso slightly shaved, a small worm-hole throughout. unbound, RARE Svo. YJ Imprinted at London, by Tohn Daye (? 1560) Lady Eleanor Audeley; who is yet alive and lodgeth in White- Hall. Which shee prophesied sixteen yeeres agoe, and had them printed in Holland, and there presented the said Prophesies to the Prince Elector; for which she was imprisoned seven veeres here in England, |} rv the late King and his Majesties Councell : First, she was put into the Gate-house then into Bedlam, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31656481_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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