De Mirabilibus Pecci: being the Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire, Commonly called The Devil’s Arse of Peak. In English and Latine. The Latine Written by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury. The English by a Person of Quality. _London, Printed for William Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar,_ 1678. 8^o. (6½ × 4¼). W. 3. 2. Collation: A-E⁸F⁴, paged. Wanting F 4 (? blank). Licence, signed Rog. L’estrange, and dated Sept. 3, 1677. The poem is addressed to William, Earl of Devonshire. Advertisement at the end. The first edition containing the Latin only appeared in 1636. The present is the third. HOLINSHED, RAPHAEL. 1577. The Firste volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. Conteyning, The description and Chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest. The description and Chronicles of Scotland, from the first originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde. 1571 The description and Chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the firste originall of that Nation, vntill the yeare. 1547. Faithfully gathered and set forth, by Raphaell Holinshed. _At London, Imprinted for Iohn Harrison. God saue the Queene._ =B. L.= F^o. (11¼ × 7¾). F. 1. Title within woodcut border with Bynneman’s mermaid device. Collation: ¶⁶*²A-P⁸Q⁶, one leaf signed r 1 inserted; a-s⁸, one leaf signed t (see vol. ii.); A²(*b*)²*a*-*b*⁶; A-2I⁸2K⁴2L-2M⁶; ❧² A-C⁸D⁴; A-G⁸H⁶, with one unsigned leaf inserted after H 5, I². Paged in part, folios numbered in part. *b*6 blank. Double columns. Woodcuts. In the last alphabet E 6-8 have been cancelled completely, and leaves F 2 and 7 are cancels (inserted separately) substituted for the original leaves. (Another copy in the Library, VI^b.4.7, contains E6-8 and also the original leaves F2 and 7.) The leaf signed r 1 which should follow Q 6 of first alphabet is misplaced in the middle of sheet *. On the verso of titlepage is a cut of the Holinshed arms quartered with those of the Goddistons of Essex, the whole charged with a crescent of difference. This reappears on the verso of both the separate titlepages. Epistle dedicatory to William Cecill, Lord Burleigh, signed. Preface. List of authorities. Head-title to the description of Britain with table of chapters to the first book. Epistle dedicatory to William Brook, Lord Cobham, signed W. H. Three books of the description, folios numbered. One leaf of errata inserted. History of England to the Conquest, paged. Separate titlepage ‘1577. The Historie of Scotlande, conteyning the beginning, increase, proceedings, continuance, Actes and Gouernemente of the Scottish nation, from the originall thereof vnto the yeare. 1571. Gathered and written in the English tongue by R. H. At London, Imprinted for Iohn Harrison. God saue the Queene’, within border as before. List of authorities.