David Persecuted

David Persecuted

Full title: Il Davide perseguitato = David persecuted / VVritten in Italian by the Marquesse Virgilio Malvezzi ; and done into English by Robert Ashley, gent.

Malvezzi, Virgilio, 1595-1653

London : Printed for Humphrey Mosely, at the signe of the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard

1647 [i.e. 1648]

[2], 163, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : engraved frontispiece (portrait) ; 16 cm (12mo)

Title within ornamental border; text within line border ; head-piece; initial. Engraved frontipiece portrait of Charles I as King David has imprint date of 1648; signed: W. Marshall Sculpsit Signatures: A-G. Leaf G4 missigned Gg4 Running title reads: David persecuted. The last leaf is blank.

Juvenile signatures on recto of frontispiece: Bridget, Mary and Jane Jocelyn, daughters of Sir Strange Jocelyn (1651-1734), 2nd Baronet Jocelyn of Hyde Hall, Essex, a Quaker non-Conformist; 8-line poem beginning "O England, England" in early hand on verso of final blank.
Book labels of Richard Luckett and Christopher Rowe.

Marshall, William, active 1617-1650, engraver.
Ashley, Robert, 1565-1641, translator.
Moseley, Humphrey, -1661, bookseller.
Socrates, Scholasticus, approximately 379-approximately 440. Ecclesiastical history. English
Evagrius, Scholasticus, 536?- Ecclesiastical history. English

English

Dated 1648 .m35
ESTC R202847