Title within woodcut border. Collation: A⁸B-V⁶X⁴2A-3Q⁶, folios numbered. Double columns. Wanting 3Q 6 (? blank). Epistle dedicatory to Henry VIII. Table of contents. Preliminary verses. After the ‘Canterbury Tales’ is a half-title to ‘The Romaút of the Rose’ within same border (sig. 2A 1). After the colophon appears a Latin epitaph on Chaucer by Stephanus Surigonus. Copies of this edition are also found bearing in the colophon the names of ‘Wyllyam Bonham’, ‘Thomas Petit’, and ‘Robart Toye.’ They are all alike undated. Mr Hazlitt places it before the edition of 1542, thus making it the second collected edition, and suggests the date 1538; Prof. Skeat and the BM catalogue place it after, making it the third, which seems more likely, the former dating it 1550, the latter 1545. The only dated book by Bonham, it may be remarked, appeared in 1542. In any case it is a reprint of Thynne’s text first printed in 1532.
A Letter to George Hardinge, Esq. on the Subject of a Passage in Mr. Stevens’s Preface to his Impression of Shakespeare.... _London: Printed by B. Sibthorp, for G. Kearsly in Fleet-Street,_ M, DCC, LXXVII.
MS. note on titlepage: ‘Seen through the Press by Mr. H--go: Note on p. 18. added, and the Post-Script new-molded by him. E. C.’ The postscript is preceded by a ‘Sonnet To Mr. Capell’. Attributed in the BM catalogue and doubtfully by Lowndes to the Rev. John Collins of Hertfordshire.
COMMINES, PHILIPPE DE, _Seigneur d Argenton_.
The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton. _Imprinted at London by Ar. Hatfield, for I. Norton._ 1596
Title within ornamental border bearing the initials H D (_i.e._ H. Denham). Collation: A⁶a²B-X⁶Y⁴Z⁸2A-2L⁶, one leaf unsigned, paged. Sig. 2K 5 appears in duplicate; the first is presumably intended as a cancel though no alteration is apparent. Epistle dedicatory to Lord Burley, signed by the translator, Thomas Danett. Life of Philip de Commines with a reply to the accusations of Jacobus Meyerus. Table of contents. The history, preceded by the author’s preface to the Archbishop of Vienne. After Bk vi there follow eight chapters headed ‘A Supply of the Historie of Philip de Commines from the death of King Lewis the II. till the beginning of the wars of Naples, to wit, from 1483. till 1493. of all the which time Commines writeth nothing’. Bks vii and viii follow, after which there are a number of genealogical tables. The single leaf inserted at the end contains errata. This is the earliest known edition, though a translation was entered to Thomas Marsh as early as 1565-6.