Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. Done into English
Heroicall verse, by Edward Fairefax Gent. _Imprinted at London by Ar.
Hatfield, for I. Iaggard and M. Lownes._ 1600
F^o. (10 × 6-1/4). H. 4.
Collation: A^4B-2K^{6}2L^4, paged. Dedicatory verses to Queen
Elizabeth signed by the translator. 'The Allegorie of the Poem'. A
cancel slip is inserted on B 1, containing a different rendering of
the first stanza. First edition of the translation by Fairfax. The
second edition, 1624, follows the original, not the cancel, in the
rendering of the first stanza. A translation of cantos i-v by
Richard Carew had appeared in 1594. At the end of the 'Allegory' in
the present copy are six lines of blank verse in Capell's
handwriting and subscribed with his initials. They are a
translation of the second stanza of the first book.
Sinker 666. BM 700.