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
The Fortunate, the Deceiv’d, and the Unfortunate Lovers. Three Excellent
New Novels, Containing Many Pleasant and Delightful Histories. The like
never in any Language before. Printed in English and French, For the
Satisfaction of the Ingenious. Written by the Wits of both Nations.
_London, Printed for William Whitwood in Duck-Lane,_ 1685.
8^o. (6⅞ × 4¼). U. 3.
Collation: 2 leaves unsigned, 2 leaves signed A, B-M⁸; A-I⁸K²;
A-F⁸G⁴, each part paged separately. Engraved titlepage with
verses facing printed titlepage. Address ‘Au Lecteur’. Same in
English. Eight novels in each part.
LUCANUS, MARCUS ANNÆUS.
Lucans Pharsalia: or the civill Warres of Rome, betweene Pompey the
great, and Iulius Cæsar. The whole tenne Bookes, Englished by Thomas
May, Esquire. The second Edition, corrected, and the Annotations
inlarged by the Author. _London, Printed by Aug. Mathewes, for Thomas
Iones, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstanes Church-yard._
1631.
8^o. (5⅝ × 3½). Z. 9. 1.
Collation: a⁸, with engraved titlepage inserted after a 1,
A-S⁸T², unpaged. Engraved titlepage, signed Fridericus Hulsius,
with explanatory verses opposite, followed by regular titlepage.
Epistle dedicatory to William, Earl of Devonshire, signed by the
translator. Life of Lucan. Commendatory verses from Ben. Ionson and
I. Vaughan. Annotations at the end of each of the ten books. Books
i-iii appeared in 1626; the complete work, of which the present is
the second edition, in 1627. An earlier translation by Sir Arthur
Gorges had appeared in 1614, and Marlowe’s translation of Book i.
as early as 1600.
BM 1026.
LYDGATE, JOHN.
The auncient Historie and onely trewe and syncere Cronicle of the warres
betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans, and subsequently of the fyrst
euercyon of the auncient and famouse Cytye of Troye vnder Lamedon the
king, and of the laste and fynall destruction of the same vnder Pryam,
wrytten by Daretus a Troyan and Dictus a Grecian both souldiours and
present in all the sayde warres and digested in Latyn by the lerned
Guydo de Columpnis and sythes translated in to englyshe verse by Iohn
Lydgate Moncke of Burye. _And newly imprinted. An._ M.D.L.V. [Colophon]
_Imprinted at London, in Fletestrete at the sygne of the Princes armes,
by Thomas Marshe. Anno. do._ M.D.L.V.
=B. L.= F^o. (11⅛ × 7¾). F. 15.
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