The breuiary of Britayne

The breuiary of Britayne

Full title: The breuiary of Britayne : as this most noble, and enowmed iland, was of auncient time deuided into three Kingdomes, England, Scotland and Wales. Contaynyng a learned discourse of the variable state, [and] alteration thereof vnder diuers, as wel natural: as forren princes, [and] conquerours. Together with geographicall description of the same, such as nether by elder, nor later writers, the like hath been set foorth before. Writen in Latin by Humfrey Lhuyd of Denbigh, a Cambre Britayne, and lately Englished by Thomas Twyne, Gentleman.

Other title: Breuiarie of Britayne
Other title: Breviarie of Britayne
Other title: Breviary of Britayne

Llwyd, Humphrey, 1527-1568.

Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613, translator.

Imprinted at London : by Richard Iohnes: and are to be solde at his shop, ioynyng to the southwest doore of Paules Church

1573

[22], 96 leaves ; 14 cm (8⁰)

A translation of: Commentarioli Britannicae descriptionis fragmentum.

Printer’s name and address from colophon.

"Authours, whose names, and woorkes, are cited in this booke" ... 17th prelim. leaf.

Text in black letter. Title within woodcut border. Decorative woodcut initials and tail-pieces.

Imperfect: leaves ** and **2 misbound at the end of the preliminary leaves; top inner corner of title-page with small loss, not affecting printing; small top corner repair to final leaf, not affecting text; top margin trimmed close, occasionally affecting headline and foliation.

Binding: early nineteenth-century speckled calf; spine ruled in gilt; red morocco spine label lettered in gilt; board edges tooled in gilt.

Armorial bookplate on front pastedown of Peter Corbett, depicting a raven with motto 'Deus pascit corvos'.

Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund.

English

Mini Dated 1573 .L59

English short title catalogue, S108126

STC (2nd ed.), 16636

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