The historie of Philip de Commines, knight, Lord of Argenton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Commynes, Philippe de, approximately 1447-1511.

Contributor:

Danett, Thomas, active 1566-1601.

Denham, H. M.

Bill, John, -1630, bookseller.

Eliot's Court Press, printer.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Mémoires. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

France--History--House of Valois, 1328-1589.

France.

History.

Burgundy (France)--History--House of Valois, 1363-1477--Sources.

Burgundy (France).

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Essex, Algernon Capell, Earl of (bookplate) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Sherven, John (bookplate) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Wenman, Graham A. (label) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree) (Furness copy)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor) (Furness copy)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (Furness copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 366 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : genealogical tables ; 29 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

London : Imprinted [by Eliot's Court Press] for Iohn Bill, 1614.

Language Note:

Translation into English of: Les mémoires de messire Philippe de Commines ... (Tchemerzine III, 462).

Notes:

One of several issues distinguished by different type settings in several signatures, chiefly K, L, O, Q, R, and V; three variants listed in Folger. Printed books.

Printer's name from STC (2nd ed.).

Translator's dedication signed by Thomas Danett.

Woodcut illustrated title leaf; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Signatures: A⁸ B-2H⁶ 2I⁴ (2I4 blank).

Page number 30, 31, 65, 66, 207, 255, 257, and 352 misprinted 28, 33, 111, 60, 270, 259, 256, and 354 respectively.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

With 17 woodcut geneal. tables at end.

The last leaf is blank.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 1345:08 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Penn Libraries Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy with t.p. and prelims. mended at lower outside corner.

Penn Libraries Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy has full page of ms. note on front free endpaper and at lower margin of title page

Penn Libraries Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy wanting last blank leaf.

Penn Libraries Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy has bookseller's description laid in.

Penn Libraries Furness copy imperfect: last leaf (blank) wanting; title leaf mended at outer margin; leaf D2 mended at lower outside corner; leaf V1 mended at upper outside corner.

Penn Libraries Furness copy has a few ms. notes and underlining in text.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 5604

ESTC S107249

Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, 443

OCLC:

9871189