4o. (7 × 51⁄8). S. 22.
Collation: A4b2B-2S82T4, paged. 2T 4 blank. Wanting A 1 (? blank), A4, containing the author's and printer's addresses, Q 3 and 6. Epistle dedicatory to Sir Walter Cope, signed Edw. Grimeston. Author's 'adwertisement' to the reader and printer's address to the same. Table of contents. On 2T 3v is the note 'The end of the first Volume'. Nothing further however was published. The original was the work of Simon not of Jean Goulart.
BM 714.
GOWER, John.
Io. Gower de confessione Amantis. Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Thomas Berthelette the .XII. daie of Marche. An M. D. LIIII. Cum priuilegio.
Fo. (101⁄4 × 73⁄8). H. 1.
Title within ornamental border. Collation: *6A-2I6, folios numbered. 2I 6 blank. 'Epigramma autoris' in Latin. Epistle dedicatory to Henry VIII. Address to the reader. Table of contents. The first edition appeared in 1483, printed by Caxton; the second in 1532 by Berthelet; this is the third.
Sinker 71. BM 714.
GRAFTON, Richard.
Graftons Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande. Newly and diligently corrected, and finished the last of October. 1570. The Contents whereof apeareth in the next Page of this lefe. Seene and allowed, according to an order taken. In œdibus Richardi Tottyll. Cum Priuilegio.
B. L. 8o. (53⁄4 × 4). Z. 4.
Collation: 8 leaves unsigned, ¶82⁌-3⁌84⁌4A-2B82C4, folios numbered. Wanting 2C 4 (? blank). Table of contents. Calendar. Almanack for 24 years. Rules for terms, signs of the Zodiac, dog-days, divisions of the year, Vigils, number of days in the months. Epistle dedicatory to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Grafton's address to the reader. Alphabetical table of contents. At the end: list of Colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, Shires, Cities, and Boroughs of England, Wards of the City of London, Parish Churches in London, Out parishes adjoining to London, Principal Fairs, High-ways to London. The first edition of the 'Abridgement,' appeared in 1562-3. This is the third and is quite distinct from that of 1570-1 (Haz. II. 255). The present copy differs from that in the BM in having no colophon.
Sinker 251. BM 716.