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The pastime of people, or, The chronicles of divers realms, and most especially of the realm of England / briefly compiled, and imprinted in Cheapside, by John Rastell (A.D. 1529) ; now first reprinted, and systematically arranged, with fac-simile wood-cuts of the portaits of popes, emperors, &c. and the kings of England.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Forrest Collection Folio DA130 .R37 1811
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rastell, John, -1536.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--To 1485.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe.
- Penn Provenance:
- Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copy)
- Lewis, John Frederick, Jr. (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
- Other Title:
- Pastime of people
- Chronicles of divers realms, and most especially of the realm of England
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington ... [and 6 others], 1811.
- Contents:
- Roman history
- Papal history
- Flemish history
- French history
- Norman history
- British history.
- Notes:
- "Advertisement" signed: T. F. Dibdin.
- The originals of the numerous woodcuts that adorn the work seem to have been by Rastell himself. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy bound with: Arnold, Richard. Customs of London, otherwise called, Arnold's chronicle. London : Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington ... [and 5 others], 1811.
- RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries by John Frederick Lewis, Jr.
- RBC copy has armorial bookplate (party per pale: dexter side, argent, a fess between six annulets gules, three in chief and as many in base; sinister side: argent, on a chevron engrailed azure between three martlets sable as many cinquefoils or[?]; crest: out of a ducal coronet, a dragon's head and shoulders with wings erect gules) with motto "Ne timeas nisi Deum" of an unidentified former owner, possibly related to the Lucas and/or Heyman families.
- RBC copy has label with printed numeral ("58") on front pastedown.
- RBC copy bound in early full calf; boards tooled in gold; gold-tooled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; blue silk marker.
- RBC copy: boards detached and damgaged; backstrip largely wanting.
- OCLC:
- 657886
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