Iohn Barclay his Argenis, . translated out of Latine into English: the prose upon his maiesties command: by Sir Robert Le Grys, Knight: and the verses by Thomas May, esquire. With a clauis annexed to it for the satisfaction of the reader, and helping him to vnderstand, what persons were by the author intended, under the fained names imposed by him vpon them: and published by his Maiesties command.
John Barclay (1582-1621)
Category
Books
Date
1629
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3143278
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 256, 247-489, [1] p., plates . port.. . 4to.. Lacks plates. With some of the identifications of the characters written in the margins in seventeenth-century hand. Old shelf-mark: A.6.12. Binding: Seventeenth-century limp vellum wrapper, with four sewing supports tacketed through vellum, and holes on fore-edge from two pairs of ties. With nineteenth-century pastedowns and endpapers.
Makers and roles
John Barclay (1582-1621) Sir Robert Le Grys (d.1635) Thomas May (1595-1650)