Fo. (11 × 71⁄4). F. 10. 1.
Collation: A6, with one sheet signed on first leaf A 2 inserted after A 1, B-2K6, paged. (This, and not A2A6, is the correct description of the preliminary matter.) Three columns on a page. Title on A1. The inserted sheet contains, epistle dedicatory to Sir John Scot, Sir Henry Bromley, Sir Edward Grevel, and Master William Fortescue, signed Iohn Minsheu, and an address to the reader, signed by the same. On the original A 2 begins 'Directions for the understanding the vse of this Dictionary', signed Iohn Minshew. The Spanish-English part begins on A 3, the English-Spanish on Y 1 each with head-title. Percyvall's original work 'Bibliotheca Hispanica. Containing a Grammar with a Dictionarie in Spanish, English and Latine' appeared in 1591. The present work and the grammar that follows no doubt formed one publication, though they are bibliographically distinct. They are the first edition of Minsheu's revision.
Sinker 691. BM 1216.
A Spanish Grammar, first collected and published by Richard Perciuale Gent. Now augmented and increased with the declining of all the Irregular and hard verbes in that toong.... Done by Iohn Minsheu Professor of Languages in London. Hereunto for the yoong beginners learning and ease, are annexed Speeches, Phrases, and Prouerbes, expounded out of diuers Authors, ... Virescit vulnere Virtus. Imprinted at London, by Edm. Bollifant. 1599.
Fo. (11 × 71⁄4). F. 10. 2.
Collation: a4b-h6i2k-o6p2, paged, (a 2 is misprinted i 2, and the quire is otherwise unsigned. Sheet i is also unsigned.) Epistle dedicatory to the students of Gray's Inn, signed Iohn Minsheu. Address to the reader signed by the same. Latin commendatory verses to Minsheu by Iohannes Keperus. 'Soneto de un capitan Español del Autór'. Proeme. The 'Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues in Spanish and English' begin with special titlepage (with same imprint) and fresh pagination at sig. i 1. Epistle dedicatory in Spanish to 'Don Eduardo Hobby', signed Iohn Minsheu. Enlarged by Minsheu from the original work by Percyvall, as preceding entry.
Sinker 692. BM 1216.
PHAER, Thomas.
The .xiii. Bookes of Æneidos ... 1584. SeeVergilius Maro, Publius.
PLUTARCH.
The Lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that graue learned Philosopher and Historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea: Translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amyot, Abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, one of the Kings priuy counsel, and great Amner of Fraunce, and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North. Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blacke Friers by Ludgate. 1579.