Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta : an English exposition of the Roman antiquities : wherein many Roman & English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 1587-1642.

Contributor:

Lichfield, Leonard, -1657, printer.

Cripps, Henry, active 1648-1662, bookseller.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law.

Civilization.

Antiquities.

Rome--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.

Rome.

Great Britain--Civilization--Roman influences--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Law--Great Britain--Roman influences--Early works to 1800.

Rome (Empire).

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 277 pages, 23 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Edition:

Newly revised and inlarged by the Author.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Printed by Leonard Lichfield for Henry Cripps, a. Dom. MDCXLII [1642]

Notes:

Dedication signed: Tho. Godwyn.

Title page within ornamental woodcut border; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-2O⁴ 2P².

Pages 185-192 (²A⁴) have been wrongly imposed in each other's place.

With side- and shoulder-notes.

"For the use of Abingdon Schoole."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Library's copy has t.p. mounted in a blank leaf.

With ms. inscriptions on remains of front free endpaper.

Bound with: Goodwin, Thomas, 1586 or 7-1642. Moses and Aaron. London : Printed by John Haviland ..., 1634 -- Rous, Francis, b. 1615. Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Oxford : Printed by Leonard Lichfield for Edward Forrest, MDCXXXVII [1637].

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.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.), G985

Madan, II, 1286

ESTC R21314

OCLC:

37634438