Nature's paradox, or, The innocent impostor : a pleasant Polonian history : originally intituled Iphigenes / compiled in the French tongue by the rare pen of J.P. Camus, B. of Belley ; and novv Englished by Major VVright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652, author.

Contributor:

Wright, John, approximately 1590-1659, translator.

Vaughan, Robert, active 17th century, engraver.

Dod, Edward, active 1646-1661, bookseller.

Ekins, Nathaniel, bookseller.

M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Standardized Title:

Iphigène. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

French literature--17th century--Translations into English--Early works to 1800.

French literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gration-Maxfield, Brent (former owner) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Knohl, Howard R., 1937- (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Knohl, Linda Freed, 1940- (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Brooke, Anne (former owner) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[16], 372 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Nature's paradox

Innocent imposter

Fingerprint:

oror e.Y. chof sowi (3) 1652 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by J.G. for Edvv. Dod, and Nath. Ekins, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie-Lane, 1652.

Language Note:

English translation of: Iphigène.

Notes:

Translator's dedication signed in red: VVright.

Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ B-3A⁴ 3B² (leaf Z1 signed "Y").

Engraved plate (frontispiece illustration) with title "IPHIGENES Vtrisque Triumphans" signed: Vaughan sculp:.

Woodcut initials, factotums, and head-piece.

Type ornament head-pieces and tail-piece.

Errata on verso of title leaf.

Title in red and black within border of double rules. "A variant has title word 'Nature's' in black."--ESTC.

"The minde of the frontispiece.": Leaf A1v.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy is variant with title word 'Nature's' in black.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Kislak Center copy has manuscript bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from John Price Antiquarian Books.

Kislak Center copy has manuscript ownership inscription ("EX LIBRIS. BERNT MAXFIELD.") of Brent Gration-Maxfield in blue ink on front pastedown; illustrated and illuminated bookplate ("FOX POINTE COLLECTION FPC LIBRARY OF Dr. & Mrs. H.R. Knohl") on front free endpaper; early manuscript ownership inscription ("Anne Brooke her booke") on title leaf.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C417

ESTC R3735

OCLC:

228726890