Polydori Vergilii Vrbinatis Anglicæ historiæ libri vigintisex. : Ab ipso autore postremùm iam recogniti, ádque amussim, salua tamen historiæveritate, expositi. Indices rerum singularum & vtiles & copiosos, in operis calce adiectos reperies.
Polydore Vergil (1470-1555).
Category
Books
Date
1556
Materials
Place of origin
Ghent
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3032517
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 8vo. Imperfect: vol. 1 only. Shelved and uniformly bound with vol. 2, Douai, 1603. “libri vigintisex” on titlepage changed to “Libri XVI” in seventeenth-century manuscript. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on titlepage: Fran Panton 1711. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, gilt spine tooling, gilt roll on board edges, yellow painted edges, remains of brown spine label.
Makers and roles
Polydore Vergil (1470-1555).