PROVENANCE:
Bottom of inside cover has ownership inscription : Falkner? Benson? Dublin. Verso of first flyleaf has a faded inscription.
INSCRIPTION:
Bottom of inside cover has ownership inscription : Falkner? Benson? Dublin. Verso of first flyleaf has a faded inscription.
BINDING:
Soft Vellum binding has a faded handwritten inscription of title
MARGINALIA:
printed marginal notes.
OTHER:
Second Copy at Fisher. Attributed also, with equal probability, to Philippe de Mornay 1549-1623, and formerly, to Beza, Hotman, and others. Cf. L.C.
Other Notes: The Imprint is false. Printed in Basel, possibly by T. Guarinus. Running title reads Vindic. cont. tyrann.
Some ornamented initials
. Inside cover has pencilled notes, including possible indication of price, L32.
FORMAT:
[14], 236, [3] p.
OTHER:
Imprint from colophon to Erasmus' Institutio principis Christiani.
Bound with Plutarchi Cheronei opuscula, with separate title page.
WATERMARK:
Fleurs-de-lis.
TYPE:
Renaissance roman, with occasional passages in Renaissance Greek.
PROVENANCE:
Inscriptions on title page: "? Giller iv.d."; "Stephanus Co?pp???? 1602 No 63:".
MARGINALIA:
Inscriptions in various hands on the front pastedown recording the title, author, printer, and date, as well as information on prices paid for the item at various times and information on other items; 20 pages of notes on blank pages included at rear of book (including rear free endpaper and rear pastedown), mostly on legal topics.
Extensive printed marginalia.
FORMAT:
8vo. a-h82a8 followed by 44 blank pages.
DEDICATIONS:
Includes dedicatory preface by Erasmus addressed to Charles (later the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V).
BINDING:
Leather over pasteboard, blind tooled on both boards and spine; head-edge and tail-edge titles; remains of ties; binding reinforced with MS waste.