Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge
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Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Bibliography -- Catalogs; Trinity College (University of Cambridge). Library -- Catalogs
Collation: A²a-p⁸q-s⁶t⁸2A⁴ (2A 1-2 misprinted AA iii-iiii,
3-4 unsigned) A⁶ (A 1-4 misprinted A iii-vi, 5-6 unsigned) 2
leaves unsigned; folios numbered. Woodcut of the arms of Scotland
and dedicatory verses from the printer to James V on verso of
title. Epistle dedicatory to James from the author, subscribed ‘E
Gynmasio Montisacuti apud Parrhisios frugi & non ignobili’.
Alphabetical tables at end, after colophon. The sheets containing
the irregular signatures at the end are wanting in all three copies
at the BM. Ruled throughout in red. This work is said to contain
the earliest printed notice of Robin Hood.
ELYOT, _Sir_ THOMAS.
The Castle of Health, Corrected, and in some places Augmented by the
first Authour thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight. Now newlie pervsed,
amended, and corrected, this present yeare, 1610. _London, Printed for
the Company of Stationers,_ 1610.
4^o. (7 × 5¼). S. 32. 3.
Collation: ¶⁴A-S⁴, paged. ‘The Proheme of Sir Thomas Eliot
Knight, into his Booke.’ Alphabetical table. The first edition
appeared in 1539; this appears to be the seventh.
The Image of Gouernance compiled of the Actes and Sentences notable, of
the moste noble Emperour Alexander Seuerus, late translated out of Greke
into Englyshe, by syr Thomas Eliot knight, in the fauour of Nobylitie.
_Anno_ .M. D. XLI. [Colophon] _Londini in Officina Thomæ Bertheleti
typis impress. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. Anno_ .M. D. XL.
=B. L.= 4^o (7 × 5⅛). S. 7. 2.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: a-b⁴A-2C⁴, folios
numbered. Preface. Table of contents. Fine woodcut of the arms of
Sir Thomas Elyot on verso of title, and one of Berthelet’s
‘Lucrece’ device on b4^v. The work purports to be translated out of
the Greek of one Eucolpius, presumably a fictitious authority.
First edition.
Sinker 65. BM 600.
ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS.
The praise of Folie. Moriæ Encomium a booke made in latyne by that great
clerke Erasmus Roterodame. Englisshed by sir Thomas Chaloner knight.
_Anno_ .M.D.XLIX. [Colophon] _Imprinted at London in Fletestrete in the
House of Thomas Berthelet. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
Anno_ .M. D. LXIX.
=B. L.= 4^o. (7¼ × 5¼). R. 16.
Title within ornamental border, at the foot of which are printed
the initials ‘T. P.’ (misprint for T. B. _i.e._ Thomas Berthelet,
see ‘A necessary doctrine’ etc. by T. Berthelet, 1543, T. C. C.
v1^d. 3. 7.). The date in the colophon is likewise a misprint for
1549 as in title. Collation: A⁴; A-T⁴, unpaged. Translator’s
address to the reader. At the beginning is inserted a leaf of MS.
in a 17th century hand containing biographical notes concerning Sir
Thomas Chaloner. There is also some writing in an early hand on the
verso of A 4 (preliminary sheet), but it has been pasted over and
one blank leaf inserted before the next sheet.
Sinker 69. BM 596.
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