Historia Maioris Britanniæ, tam Angli[e] [quam] Scoti[e], per Ioann[~e]
Maiorem, nomine quidem Scotum, professione autem Theologum, c veterum
monumentis concinnata. _V[e]nundatur Iodoco Badio Ascensio._ [Colophon]
_Ex officina Ascensiana ad Idus Aprilis._ MDXXI.
4^o. (7-1/2 × 5-3/8). Q. 5. 2.
Collation: A^2a-p^8q-s^6t^{8}2A^4 (2A 1-2 misprinted AA iii-iiii,
3-4 unsigned) A^6 (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 × 5-1/4). S. 32. 3.
Collation: ¶^4A-S^4, 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 × 5-1/8). S. 7. 2.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: a-b^4A-2C^4, 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.