Scarronides: or, le Virgile travesty. A mock-poem. Being the first book of Virgils Æneis in English, burlésque. Imprimatur, Roger L'Estrange.
by Cotton, Charles
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About This Item
London: printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane, 1664.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [4], 112pp. With the printer's device on the verso of the half-title. Contemporary calf, with the arms of the Bagot family stamped on the covers in blind. ESTC R215032; Wing (2nd ed., 1994), C6391A. Bound with: Scudamore, James. Homer a la mode. A mock poem upon the first, and second books of Homer's Iliads. Oxford: printed by H[enry]. H[all]. for Ric. Davis, 1664 or 1665. Both items are quite difficult to find in the trade.
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- Scarronides: or, le Virgile travesty. A mock-poem. Being the first book of Virgils Æneis in English, burlésque. Imprimatur, Roger L'Estrange.
- Author
- Cotton, Charles
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Good
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- London: printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane, 1664.
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...