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

Impr. 187 or 188: 1639: (twelves) 16^o: pp. [16] + 228 + [6]: p. 11 beg. mired, but, 101 the sight: English Roman. Contents:—p. (1) title, within border of woodcuts: (3–9) Epistle dedicatory “to the noble and much honoured Company of Hierusalem’s Artillery”, signed “George Foxle”: (10–14) “To the Reader”, also signed: (15) “The contents ...”: 1–228, the treatise.

A (George?) Foxley is mentioned in Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iv. 137, as preaching in London in Jan. 1648
9. Copies of this treatise differ in the imprint, showing that it was published both at Leicester and Bristol. Each page is within lines, doubled at the top and outer side.

Impr. 190: 1639: (eights) 12^o: pp. [16] + 505 + [23]: p. 11 beg. nubem è Zona, 401 Multa generosa: Long Primer Roman. Contents:—p. (1) “A”: (3) title: (5–10) dedication to Maximilian de Rassenghem, Lovanii, 1 Jan. 1627: (11–15) “Ad Lectorem”: 1–505, the work, in 6 books: (2–8) “Index capitum et articulorum” in the order of the book: (10–22) “Index rerum memorabilium”, alphabetical.

This is a reprint of the 1627 or 1631 Antwerp edition, being itself the third. The scope of the work may be gathered from the definition of “Meteora” as being phenomena produced by vapour (rain, &c.), or by exhalation (fiery, as lightning and falling stars: or non-fiery, as winds), or by both (clouds). Fromondus lived from 1587 to 1654, chiefly at Louvain.

Impr. 193: 1639: sm. 4^o: pp. [8] + 31 + [1]: p. 11 beg. What right: Great Primer Roman. Contents:—pp. (1–2), not seen: p. (3) title, within a border of woodcuts: (5–8) dedication to bp. John Bancroft: 1–31, the sermon, on Matth. ii. 2.

See Wood’s Ath. Oxon., ed. Bliss, iii. 921. The dedication mentions that the bishop had built the old palace at Cuddesdon, reformed the altars throughout his diocese, and suitably inscribed the Cathedral communion plate. Sign. A4² is paged 28 by error.