The first fovvre bookes of the ciuile wars between the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke / By Samuel Daniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.

Contributor:

Short, Peter, -1603, printer.

Roberts, James, -1618?, printer.

Waterson, Simon, active 1584-1634, bookseller.

Windet, John, -1610, printer.

Standardized Title:

Civil wars. Book 1-5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Great Britain--History--Lancaster and York, 1399-1485--Poetry.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered leaf, 108 leaves ; (4to)

Other Title:

First fowre bookes of the civile wars between the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke

Fingerprint:

e.e, o.e, l.ll ThWh (3) 1595 (A)

Place of Publication:

At London : Printed by P. Short for Simon Waterson, 1595.

Notes:

Signatures: [A]1 B-2E⁴.

In verse.

Same text setting as STC 6244. "Identified as STC 6244 on UMI microfilm."--ESTC.

Leaves 89-108 comprise the fifth book, in one of two settings: caption title has (1) "fift" (printed by John Windet) or (2) "fyft" (printed by J. Roberts?). Cf. ESTC.

Title within woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 177, with "IHS" at top); woodcut factotums, head-pieces and tail-piece.

Printed marginalia.

Photocopy. 22 x 28 cm.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy: in the fifth book, caption title reads "fift" (printed by John Windet).

LIBRA Rare copy has photocopy of A.W. Pollard, Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), p. 281, with entry for this work (some ms. underlines in red pencil), laid in.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.), 6244.3

ESTC S109254

OCLC:

1056933611