Imprint from colophon (Z8 recto); date from title page

Signatures: [superscript pi]Áı A-Źı

Title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 125[alpha]); head- and tailpieces; initials

The two leaves between 161 and 163 are both numbered 159

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)

English short title catalogue

Cataloged

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy D58 .J85 1570x bound in full modern calf panelled in blind. Title stamped in gilt onto a red leather spine label. Bookplate of the BPL Benton Fund. Autograph, dated 1624, of Melcher Wernstedt (1601-1655) on title page. Early/contemporary inscription in lower margin of the title page struck out. Ink stamp of the Bradford Public Library on title page verso. Early/contemporary marginalia, corrections, etc., throughout. On verso of final leaf, a lengthy ca. 16th-century inscription containing 15 lines of verse, at the head of which is signed, "This booke Apertayneth unto me, Rennold/[Reginaldus] Smalle." Purchased from the Ravenstreet Co. in 1989.

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