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Aldus Manutius Anno Anno domini apud Archbishop Aristotelis Baker BIBLE BIBLIA BIBLIOTHECA Bishop Bishop of Ely BOKE BOOKS PRINTED Cambridge catalogue church CICERONIS Cole Coll collection copy daye ditto Earl EDITIO PRINCEPS edition Edward Eiusdem England English Enprynted EPISTOLÆ fellow Folio half-length Imprinted Imprynted at London John's King King's Kynge Henry Lady late Latin learned leaves liber libri librorum libros Londini London in Fletestrete Lord manuscript master Muretus noble Octavo OPERA orationes Poems poetry Portrait Printed at Venice Printed by Aldus printed by John printer printer's name Prose Public Library quæ Quarto Queen rare rarity Richard Grafton Richard Jugge Richard Pynson Robert Rome sayd says sold Sonne by Wynkyn Sulmona sygne Testament Thomas Thomas Berthelet three-quarters translated Trinity tyme University unto vellum Venice vnto William Caxton written Wynkyn de Worde yere
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Page 138 - Fynysshid the last day of Marche, the yer of our Lord God a thousand fonre hondrcd Ixxiiij.
Page 234 - Imprynted at London in Flete strete at the sygne of | the sonne/ by Wynkyn de Worde | ( On the reverse is the mark of Wynkyn de Worde with WC occurring thrice in if) Sm.
Page 250 - The Gospels of the fower Euangelistes translated in the olde Saxons tyme out of Latin into the vulgare toung of the Saxons...
Page 260 - A PRETIE NEW ENTERLUDE | Both pithie and pleasaunt of the story of | Kyng Daryus, being taken out of the third | and fourth chapter of the thyrd booke of Esdras. | The Names of the Players. The prolocutor.
Page 389 - London, and dilygently amended in dyuers places where as ony faute was, in Flete strete, at the sygne of the Sonne, by me Wynkyn de Worde, in the yere of our lorde god M.CCCCC.xxviii the ix daye of Apryll.
Page 213 - I have heard one of the greatest geniuses this age has produced,' who had been trained up. in all the polite studies of antiquity, assure me,* upon his being obliged to search into several rolls and records, that notwithstanding such an employment was at first very dry and irksome to him, he at last took an incredible pleas' ure in it, and preferred it even to the reading of Virgil or Cicero.
Page 37 - Demosthenes), was the most silent man, the merest statue of a man that I have ever seen. I once dined in company with him, and all he said during the whole time was no more than Richard. How a man should say only Richard, it is not easy to imagine.
Page 422 - THE EFFECT OF THE DECLARATIO made in the Guildhall, by M. Recorder of London, concerning the late attemptes of the Quenes Maiesties euill, seditious, and disobedient Subiectes.
Page 26 - Folio; dedicated to King Charles. It comprehends a history of Rome from the foundation of the city to the time of Augustus, drawn up in the very words of Cicero, without any alteration of any expression. In this book Middleton found every part of Cicero's own history in his own words, and his works arranged in chronological order, without farther trouble.
Page 155 - Kynge Henry the eyght. Imprynted at London in Flete Strete at the Sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de Worde".