The Early Oxford Press / A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations

by Falconer Madan

1591.

P. [31]. Tacitus. Add at end:—

On 25 May 1591 a patent was issued to Richard Wright of Oxford and his assigns to print Tacitus’s History in English, during his lifetime (Patent Rolls, 33 Eliz. pt. 17, mentioned in Arber’s Transcript of the Stationers’ Registers II (1875), p. 16). The metal engraving of a Roman Camp reappears in R. Grenewey’s translation of the Annals of Tacitus (Lond. 1598, 1604, 1622).