Historiae brytannicae defensio, Ioanne Priseo equestris ordinis Brytanno authore
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Author
Publication
1573 - Impressum in ædibus Henry Binneman typographi, impensis Humfredi Toy, London
Language
Latin
Word Count
59,500 words, Guess
Page Count
238 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL58595013M
- OCLC Control Numberbib_fict_4102713
Description
<p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">4to. f. <span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);">[1] (blank), pp. [36], 160, [30] (last blank)</span>. </span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);" xml:lang="fr">Signatures: [par.]⁴ *⁶ **⁴ ***⁴ A-X⁴ Y1 2A-2B⁴ 2C².</span> <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Calf. Gilt boards and spine. Edges spread in red. bookstamp of H.N. Leftwich. <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">Title vignette: device of Henry Bynneman with motto "Armipotent Angliæ".</span> Engraved initials, tailpieces.</span> Printed annotations. "De Mona Druidum insula, antiquitati suae restituta (cuius in Angliae descriptione meminimus) Epistola Nobilis & eruditi viri Humfredi Lhuyd: in qua etiam de Armamentario Romano, cuius in Hollandia facta est mentio, non inelegans disceptatio" at p. [11-29] at end. Includes index.</span></p><p></p> <p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span class="marclinepart"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;"> </span></span></p> <p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span class="marclinepart"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">A protest by Sir John Price (1502?-1555) against the Anglicae historiae libri XXVI of Polydorus Vergilius (Bib# 4102710/Fr# 148 in this collection); </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">see T.D. Kendrick, British antiquity. New York, 1970, p. 88. In the present work, John Price warmly defended the tales of Camelot as recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth (Bib# 955819), which were finally and definitively discredited by John Selden a century later (Tracts, 1683; Bib# 4102714/Fr# 152). See also W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, & K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2<sup>nd</sup> ed.), 20309.</span></p><p></p> <p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102713" rel="ugc nofollow"><span style="color:#4B64FF;background:#FFFFFF;">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</span></a></span>
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