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The Elizabethan zoo : a book of beasts both fabulous and authentic.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1787
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?, author.
- Series:
- Haslewood books
- The Haslewood books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals--Folklore.
- Animals.
- Animals, Mythical.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Van Gelder (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 171, [1] pages : illustrations, folded map ; 27 cm
- Manufacture:
- Cambridge : University Press
- Place of Publication:
- London : Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1926.
- Contents:
- Extracts from Edward Topsell's Historie of foure-footed beastes (1607), & his Historie of serpents (1608), supplemented by additional matter taken from Philemon Holland's translation of Pliny's Natural history (1601). Edited by M. St Clare Byrne
- cf. introduction.
- Notes:
- Half-title: The Haslewood books.
- "Of this edition, printed in England on mould-made Van Gelder paper by the Cambridge University Press, 525 numbered copies have been issued."
- Extracts from Edward Topsell's Historie of foure footed beastes (1607)--and his Historie of serpents (1608) supplemented by additional matter taken from Phllemon Holland's translation of Pliny's Natural history (1601) Edited by M. St. Clare Byrne. cf. Introduction
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 141.
- OCLC:
- 1496874
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