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Barclay his Argenis, or, The loues of Poliarchus and Argenis / faithfully translated out of Latine into English by Kingesmill Long ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio PR2209.B35 A73 1625
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barclay, John, 1582-1621.
- Standardized Title:
- Argenis. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Penn Provenance:
- Dinshaw, F. E. (bookplate)
- Talbot, E. (inscription)
- Quaritch, B. (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 404 pages ; 30 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Barclay his Argenis
- Loues of Poliarchus and Argenis
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by G.P. for Henry Seile ..., 1625.
- Notes:
- Partly in verse, which is translated by Thomas May.
- G.P. is George Purslowe. Cf. ESTC.
- Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3D⁴ 3E⁶.
- The first leaf is blank.
- Woodcuts: title vignette, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 652:01 on UMI microfilm.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy has label with ms. inscription and printed number on front pastedown; illegible autograph (dated 1857) on front free endpaper; bookseller's ms. inscription in pencil on back pastedown.
- Penn Libraries copy has wormhole through leaves X3 and X4, gatherings Y, Z and 2A, and leaves 2B1 and 2B2 without damage to text; front cover detached.
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 1392
- ESTC S106944
- OCLC:
- 56487406
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