Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge

by Unknown

Collation: A²a-p⁸q-s⁶t⁸2A⁴ (2A 1-2 misprinted AA iii-iiii, 3-4 unsigned) A⁶ (A 1-4 misprinted A iii-vi, 5-6 unsigned) 2 leaves unsigned; folios numbered. Woodcut of the arms of Scotland and dedicatory verses from the printer to James V on verso of title. Epistle dedicatory to James from the author, subscribed 'E Gynmasio Montisacuti apud Parrhisios frugi & non ignobili'. Alphabetical tables at end, after colophon. The sheets containing the irregular signatures at the end are wanting in all three copies at the BM. Ruled throughout in red. This work is said to contain the earliest printed notice of Robin Hood.

ELYOT, Sir Thomas.

The Castle of Health, Corrected, and in some places Augmented by the first Authour thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight. Now newlie pervsed, amended, and corrected, this present yeare, 1610. London, Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1610.

4^o. (7 × 5¹⁄₄). S. 32. 3.

Collation: ¶⁴A-S⁴, paged. 'The Proheme of Sir Thomas Eliot Knight, into his Booke.' Alphabetical table. The first edition appeared in 1539; this appears to be the seventh.

The Image of Gouernance compiled of the Actes and Sentences notable, of the moste noble Emperour Alexander Seuerus, late translated out of Greke into Englyshe, by syr Thomas Eliot knight, in the fauour of Nobylitie. Anno .M. D. XLI. [Colophon] Londini in Officina Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. Anno .M. D. XL.

B. L. 4^o (7 × 5¹⁄₈). S. 7. 2.

Title within woodcut border. Collation: a-b⁴A-2C⁴, folios numbered. Preface. Table of contents. Fine woodcut of the arms of Sir Thomas Elyot on verso of title, and one of Berthelet's 'Lucrece' device on b4^v. The work purports to be translated out of the Greek of one Eucolpius, presumably a fictitious authority. First edition.

Sinker 65. BM 600.

ERASMUS, Desiderius.

The praise of Folie. Moriæ Encomium a booke made in latyne by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame. Englisshed by sir Thomas Chaloner knight. Anno.M.D.XLIX. [Colophon] Imprinted at London in Fletestrete in the House of Thomas Berthelet. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. Anno.M. D. LXIX.