Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source Creator:
Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
Source Title:
The historie of serpents...
Source Created or Published:
1608
Physical Description:
title page
Source Call Number:
STC 24124 Copy 2
Digital Image File Name:
31252
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
169268
Hamnet Holdings ID:
164493
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
Title (Hamnet):
Historie of serpents
Title (Hamnet):
Historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of living creatures
Title (Hamnet):
Second booke of living creatures
Title (Hamnet):
The historie of serpents. Or, The second booke of liuing creatures: wherein is contained their diuine, naturall, and morall descriptions, with their liuely figures, names, conditions, kindes and natures of all venemous beasts: with their seuerall poysons and antidotes; their deepe hatred to mankind, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, and destruction. Necessary and profitable to all sortes of men: collected out of diuine Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: amplified with sundry accidentall histories, hierogliphicks, epigrams, emblems, and ænigmaticall obseruations. By Edvvard Topsell.
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
London :
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
printed by William Jaggard,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
1608.
Physical Description (Hamnet):
[12], 315, [9] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 2⁰.
Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet):
HH203/18. Imperfect: lacking 2A3.4. Lacking blank. 2E3.4 in setting 2. Woodcuts hand-colored throughout; MS. markings. G5 torn, affecting text. Formerly bd. w. shelf-mark STC 24123 Copy 2. Rebound, previously in plain calf. Provenance: Harmsworth copy
Notes (Hamnet):
First word of title is xylographic.
Notes (Hamnet):
Leaves 2E3,4 are in two settings: 2E3v line 18 has either (1) "waters, as in a Boate." or (2) "in a boate." (STC).
Notes (Hamnet):
Signatures: A-V⁶ 2A-2H⁶.
Notes (Hamnet):
The first leaf is blank.
Citations (Hamnet):
ESTC (RLIN) S122051
Citations (Hamnet):
STC (2nd ed.), 24124
Subject (Hamnet):
Annotations (Provenance) rbprov DFo
Subject (Hamnet):
Printed waste (Binding) rbbin DFo
Subject (Hamnet):
Reptiles -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet):
Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works -- Early works to 1800.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Harmsworth, R. Leicester Sir, (Robert Leicester), 1870-1937, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Huth Library, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), b. 1851, former owner.
Call Number (Hamnet):
STC 24124 Copy 2

The historie of serpents...