Bibliography of the Famous Writers of Great Britain (Latin)

John Bale

Bibliography of the Famous Writers of Great Britain (Latin)

Ipswich

John Overton

1548 [but Wesel: Dierk van der Straten, 1548]

This important early bibliography of British authors is a hybrid production. The book was printed in the Rhineland, bound there in brown calf, and impressed with panel stamps on both covers; the lettering of the royal inscriptions was added in England. It is tooled in blind and gilt. This is the presentation copy for Edward VI, the short-lived son and successor of Henry VIII.

Gift of Lucius Wilmerding, 1932.

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