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

Impr. 13c: 1615: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [8] + 224 + [20]: p. 11 beg. minum memoriam, 111 cumano irruunt: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—as 1607 W., 2nd ed., except “13 Cal. Jul.” in dedication, and in 2nd titlepage “HABI-|ta,” “beatæ | ,” “ACADE-|miæ,” “piis,” “parenta-|rent.”, and the Oration is (6–19), and dated 1615.

This is a reprint verbatim but not literatim. Cf. 1607 W., 2nd ed.

1616.

Impr. 2: 1616: sm. 4^o: pp. [2] + 38: p. 11 beg. answere, that: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title: 1–38, the work.

A controversial discourse against Roman Catholicism.

Impr. 34: 1616: (eights) 12^o: pp. [8] + 64: p. 11 beg. yeeld into: Pica Roman. Contents:—p. (3) title: (5–7) “To the Reader,” a preface by I[ohn] B[arnes]: 1–24, “A breefe Treatise concerning the preseruation of the eye sight”: 25–62, “A Treatise of the principall diseases of the eyes, gathered out of Fernelius and Iohn Riolamus Doctors of Phisicke.”

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., i. 586 and 1602 B, for the first treatise. Johannes Fernelius and Johannes Riolanus the elder, both French physicians, died in 1558 and 1609 respectively, but neither wrote a special treatise on eyesight. The preface is no doubt by John Barnes and alludes to the worth and undeserved obscurity of Bailey’s work. The whole book with the possible exception of the titlepage, was printed in London, the woodcuts being quite unknown at Oxford. Even the arms of the University on the titlepage are re-cut on wood. The first treatise is only a reprint, Dr. Bailey having died in 1592, and the whole book, preface and all, was reprinted at London in 1626.