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The ende of Nero and beginning of Galba : fower bookes of the histories of Cornelius Tacitus : The life of Agricola.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection DG207 .T32 1598
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tacitus, Cornelius
- Standardized Title:
- Historiae. Liber 1-4. English
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)
- Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor) (label)
- Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)
- Gibb, John S. (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 12, 227 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm (folio)
- Edition:
- The second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at London : By Edm. Bollifant for Bonham and Iohn Norton, MDXCVIII [1598]
- Notes:
- Translator's dedication signed: Henry Sauile.
- Place of publication, printer's and booksellers' names from colophon.
- Signatures: [par.]⁶ A-S⁶ T⁴ V⁶.
- The last leaf is blank.
- Page 129 numbered 125.
- Woodcut initials.
- Printed marginalia.
- Issued with "The annales of Cornelius Tacitus" (STC 23644).
- Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640: 358:4 on UMI microfilm.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy bound as issued with: Tacitus, Cornelius. The annales of Cornelius Tacitus. Printed at London : By Arn. Hatfield for Bonham and Iohn Norton, MDXCVIII [1598].
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: last leaf (blank) wanting.
- Penn Libraries copy has ms. contents note in pencil on front free endpaper; ms. marginal note in pencil on leaf [par.]3.
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 23643
- ESTC S117603
- Contains:
- Life of Agricola.
- OCLC:
- 123327705
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