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Note concerning this copy pencilled on fly-leaf by G. Thorn-Drury: A translation, with omissions, from the French by Francis Kirkman.--cf. Lowndes.
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General Information

Reference Number
EnglishPrint49
Total number of pages
367
Format
8


Digital Resources & Modern References

Digitisation
https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240928436
Modern research literature
Wing (1982-1988), Unger and Jackson (1997)
Catalogue
https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/3091916

Copies
Has LibraryHas ShelfmarkHas Note
Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research CenterAj K636.674e 
Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research CenterPforz 872 
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, George Peabody LibraryRare Books: 398.2 S597 1674 DUODECIMO

4 p.l., 367 p. : front., plates ; 17 cm.

https://kxp.k10plus.de/DB=1.77/SET=2/TTL=1/SHW?FRST=3

Bloomington IN, Indiana University, The Lilly LibraryPN687 .S3 1674https://iucat.iu.edu/lilly/5959340
Cambridge, Harvard University Library (Houghton Library)27282.51.7* 
Chicago, The Newberry LibraryCase Y 7165.E651.

https://kxp.k10plus.de/DB=1.77/SET=2/TTL=1/SHW?FRST=6

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01CARLI_NBY:CARLI_NBY&search_scope=MyInstitution&tab=LibraryCatalog&docid=alma993611428805867

[8], 367 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.

Note concerning this copy pencilled on fly-leaf by G. Thorn-Drury: A translation, with omissions, from the French by Francis Kirkman.--cf. Lowndes.

Cleveland, Cleveland Public Library382.8225 ER16KWhite Collection in Special Collections department
London, British Library1075.f.3

Note from ESTC:

Imperfect; wanting the added engraved titlepage, plate 1, plate 14, the plate before page 207, plate 19, plate 20. Titlepage and leaf A2 damaged affecting title, imprint and text. Variant. Plates cut and mounted.

London, Guildhall LibraryNot available 
Munich, Bayerische StaatsbibliothekFilm R 361-942

https://kxp.k10plus.de/DB=1.77/SET=2/TTL=1/SHW?FRST=9

https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991046003729707356&context=L&vid=49BVB_BSB:VU1&lang=de&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,BV001731792

Note: printer not listed.

Oxford, Bodleian LibraryNot available 
Princeton, University LibraryRHT 17th-341On front pastedown: stamps 'Tredegar Park' and 'Tredegar.' Bound in late 18th / early 19th cent. full calf, gilt, edges spinkled red.
San Marino, Huntington Library133636Binding signed by F. Bedford; bookplate of Huth library.
Sheffield, University LibraryRBR 853.19 (H) 
Washington D.C., Folger Shakespeare LibraryH2136

From ESTC:

MS. bibliographical notes signed "JC [J. Crossley]." MS. marks. Poorly inked throughout, affecting text.

Inscription on front paste-down: "1884 - From the Library of Jos. (?) Crossley, F. S. A. whose MS note is on th other page"; armorial bookplate of J. Wight, S. M.

Language Information

Language of text
English


Prose or verse
Prose

Note

USTC: 3091916

Unger and Jackson ref. 872

Wing: H2136

ESTC: R20131. https://datb.cerl.org/estc/R20131

Many of the copies below are taken from the USTC catalogue; their are not independently confirmed.

[Added by Jane Bonsall]

Titles & Classification

Standardised title of narrative
The History of Prince Erastus
Incipit or textual title
The history of Prince Erastus, son to the Emperour Dioclesian, and those famous philosophers called the seven wise masters of Rome : being a full account of all that was ever written of that ancient, famous, pleasant, and excellent history / written originally in Italian, then translated into French, and now rendred English by F.K. ; with the illustrations of pictures to every story.
Version (siglum)
Erasto (Es)
Language Group within Version
English Erasto
Narrative / Scholarly Group within Version
Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus


Printing Details

Name of printer
Anne Johnson
Name of author
Francis Kirkman
Place of printing
London, UK
Date of Printing
1674


Physical Characteristics

Height
170
Illustrations
No

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