Honours academie, or, The famous pastorall of the faire shepheardesse, Iulietta : a worke admirable and rare, sententious and graue, and no lesse profitable then pleasant to peruse : wherein are many notable discourses, as well philosophicall as diuine, most part of the seuen liberall sciences being comprehended therein : with diuers comicall and tragicall histories, in prose and verse of all sorts / done into English by R.T. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montreux, Nicolas de, approximately 1561- author.

Contributor:

Tofte, Robert, 1561-1620, translator.

Creede, Thomas, -1619?, printer.

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

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Bergeries de Juliette. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Pastoral fiction, French--16th century--Translations into English--Early works to 1800.

Pastoral fiction, French.

Penn Provenance:

Knohl, Howard R., 1937- (bookplate) (Furness copy)

Knohl, Linda Freed, 1940- (bookplate) (Furness copy)

Crofton, Charles (autograph) (Furness copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 86, [2], 93, page 92, page 91, 88-162, 123-163, 158-166, 165-227, page 622, 227-237, [1] pages ; 28 cm (fol.)

Other Title:

Honovrs academie, or, The famovs pastorall of the faire shepheardesse, Ivlietta

Honours academie, or, The famous pastorall of the faire shepheardesse, Julietta

Honours academie

Honovrs academie

Famous pastorall of the faire shepheardesse, Iulietta

Famovs pastorall of the faire shepheardesse, Ivlietta

Famous pastorall of the faire shepheardesse, Julietta

Pastoralls of Iulietta

Pastoralls of Julietta

Fingerprint:

r.r, chof t.t, FoTh (3) 1610 (Q)

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Thomas Creede, 1710 [that is, 1610]

Language Note:

English translation by Robert Tofte of: Les bergeries de Julliette by Nicolas de Montreux.

Notes:

Cataloged from imperfect copy with imperfections made up: leaves [par.]3 (title leaf), [par.]4-[par.]5 and leaf 3B4 (with colophon on verso) supplied from another copy; see Forum Auctions, Lot 25, A Fifth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library, 31 January 2024, www.forumauctions.co.uk/119673/Montreux-Nicholas-de-Honours-Academie.-Or-The-Famous-Pastorall-of-the-faire-Shepheardesse-Iulietta...Done-into-English-by-R.T.-Thomas-Creede-1710-but?auction_date=&auction_no=1139&catId=&excl_keyword=&first_name=&gridtype=gridview&high_estimate=&ipp=20&keyword=&last_name=&low_estimate=&name=&page_no=14&search_type=&sort_by=high_low&tab_type=&title=&view=lot_detail, accessed 17 February 2025.

Running title reads: The pastoralls of Iulietta.

Translator's dedication signed: Robert Tofte.

Colophon on leaf 3B4v reads: London printed by Thomas Creede, dvvelling in the old Change, neere old Fishstreete, at the signe of the Eagle and Childe, 1610.

ESTC and STC record imprint date on title leaf as 1610.

Signatures: [par.]⁶(-[par.]1,2) A-L⁴, 2A-3A⁶ 3B⁴.

Leaf L4 is blank.

Numerous errors in pagination.

Woodcut title vignette, initials, factotums, head- and tail-pieces.

Type ornament head-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Furness copy has some early manuscript notes and marks in text; manuscript correction to imprint date on title leaf.

Furness copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2024 at auction from Forum Auctions (lot 25/1) with assistance from the M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Furness copy has illustrated bookplate ("FOX POINTE COLLECTION FPC LIBRARY OF Dr. & Mrs. H.R. Knohl") on front pastedown

Furness copy has early autograph ("Charles Crofton") on title leaf.

Furness copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

Furness copy: leaves 3A2 and 3A5 bound in each other's place.

Furness copy: portion of fore-edge margin of leaf 2A5 torn off with some loss of manuscript marginalia on verso; head outer corner of leaves 2E2-2E4 torn off with damage to text of running headline.

Cited in:

ESTC S114999 (variant)

STC (2nd ed.) 18053 (variant)

OCLC:

1499352149

Online:

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