VOL. I.
Published by The Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury, under the Direction of the Master of the Rolls.
LONDON:
Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office,
By Eyre and Spottiswoode,
Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
The results, as worked out, were surprising, and proved the great difficulty experienced by most in interpreting a title-page. Among the renderings were these, with others equally incorrect:—
Stubbs, William, editor. Historiæ novellæ libri
tres. Vol. 1. Lond. 1887
This had a further entry under "Historiæ Novellæ," William of Malmesbury being ignored altogether. The punctuation and markings for the printer are copied as given, and are here printed accordingly.
Willelmi Malmesbiriensis, Monachi de Gestis
Regum Anglorum Libri Quinque Historiæ
Nouvellæ Libri Tres. ed. by William Stubbs,
(Bp.) vol. 1. 1887
with a further entry in all particulars the same under
"Stubbs, William (Bp. Ed.)."
Stubbs, William (Bp. of Chester afterwards
Truro) (ed.) Willelmi Malmesbiriensis
Monachi De Gestis Regum Anglorum
Libri Quinque; Historiæ Novellæ Libri
Tres. v. 1. London, H.M. Stationery
Office, 1887