The fountaine of ancient fiction. : Wherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent.
1599
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Title
The fountaine of ancient fiction. : Wherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent.
Created/published
London : Printed by Adam Islip, 1599.
Description
[208] p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Linche, Richard, author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899, former owner.
Cartari, Vincenzo, approximately 1500- Imagini de i dei de gli antichi.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899, former owner.
Cartari, Vincenzo, approximately 1500- Imagini de i dei de gli antichi.
Note
In fact mostly an original work by Linche; based on: Cartari, Vincenzo. Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi.
The first leaf is blank.
Signatures: A-2C⁴.
Stationers' register: Entered 2 April [1599]
The first leaf is blank.
Signatures: A-2C⁴.
Stationers' register: Entered 2 April [1599]
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000, Fortune (catalog entry 5)
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 4691
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 133
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107896
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 133
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107896
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 4691 copy 1
Folger-specific note
Blue goatskin, with arms and initials of Sir Mark M. Sykes, with the binder's ticket of I. Rodwell. A1, blank, lacking; margins of t.p. and some other leaves mended. Manuscript index. Provenance: bookplate of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, and Thomas J. McKee
Call number
STC 4691 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH47/21. Sprinkled calf, signed by Riviere & son. Part of A1, a blank, torn away; some margins trimmed. Manuscript index on sig.A1r. Provenance: Harmsworth copy