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The historie of Ireland, collected by three learned authors viz. Meredith Hanmer Doctor in Divinitie: Edmund Campion sometime fellow of St. Iohns Colledge in Oxford: and Edmund Spenser Esq..., 1633, Early Printed Books Stacks GG. bb. 27 (Copy B)

Title: The historie of Ireland, collected by three learned authors viz. Meredith Hanmer Doctor in Divinitie: Edmund Campion sometime fellow of St. Iohns Colledge in Oxford: and Edmund Spenser Esq...
Repository: Trinity College Dublin Library
Shelfmark: Early Printed Books Stacks GG. bb. 27 (Copy B)
Published by: Societie of Stationers
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Published Location: Dublin
Published date: 1633
Copynotes: Copy B: Duplicate edition, differently arranged, without general t.p. but with sectional ones. This corresponds to variant ‘a’ on page 52 of Johnson’s Critical Bibliography (Baltimore, 1933). Binding: Bound in calf. Rebacked in 1958.
Editionnotes: Signatures: [paragraph]⁶ A-L⁶ M⁴ Aa-Ss⁶ Tt⁴ (Tt4 blank), ²[paragraph]⁴ ²A-K⁶ ²k⁴ ²L⁴ Erratas p. [1] (third count), and p. 120 (127 p. sequence). Title-page ornament; head- and tail- pieces; initials and printed marginalia. "Harper pr[inted]. the Hanmer section"--STC. "The chronicle of Ireland: collected by Meredith Hanmer .. The second part" (caption title) begins new pagination on leaf Aa1 recto. "A vievv of the state of Ireland .. by Edmund Spenser .. Whereunto is added the history of Ireland, by Edmund Campion .. Published by Sir Iames Ware Knight" has separate dated title page (with woodcut border on leaf ²[paragraph]1), pagination, and register. "Certaine verses of Mr Edm. Spenser's", [4] leaves at end. A reissue, with cancel title page, of: Two histories of Ireland. Variant: Hanmer's chronicle bound first, with a cancel dedication by M. Manwaring replacing that of James Ware.
Record Author: Cait Martinez 8/25/09; 10/14/09; EG 05/14/2018
Record Source: Repository catalog; correspondence
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