The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions, of the best mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull praeface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scie[n]ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies, greatly missed.
1570
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The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions, of the best mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull praeface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scie[n]ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies, greatly missed.
Uniform title
Elements. English
Created/published
Imprinted at London : By Iohn Daye, [1570]
Description
[28], 203, 205-464, [1] leaves, folded table : ill. ; (fol.)
Associated name
Euclid. author.
Dee, John, 1527-1608.
Candale, François de Foix, comte de, 1502-1594.
Billingsley, Henry, Sir, -1606.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Dee, John, 1527-1608.
Candale, François de Foix, comte de, 1502-1594.
Billingsley, Henry, Sir, -1606.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Note
With a sixteenth book added by François de Foix, comte de Candale.
Colophon reads: At London printed by Iohn Daye, dvvelling ouer Aldersgate beneath Saint Martins. These bookes are to be solde at his shop vnder the gate. 1570.
Book 11 has folding figures intended to be pasted at one edge over the illustrations. These were printed together on six bifolia. Variant: these bifolia are still intact and bound with book.
Last leaf is blank.
Signatures: [fist]⁴ *⁴ a-d⁴ A-X⁴ Aa-Yy⁶ AA-YY⁶ AAa-FFf⁶ GGg-YYy⁴ AAA-EEE⁴.
Entered 1569-70.
Colophon reads: At London printed by Iohn Daye, dvvelling ouer Aldersgate beneath Saint Martins. These bookes are to be solde at his shop vnder the gate. 1570.
Book 11 has folding figures intended to be pasted at one edge over the illustrations. These were printed together on six bifolia. Variant: these bifolia are still intact and bound with book.
Last leaf is blank.
Signatures: [fist]⁴ *⁴ a-d⁴ A-X⁴ Aa-Yy⁶ AA-YY⁶ AAa-FFf⁶ GGg-YYy⁴ AAA-EEE⁴.
Entered 1569-70.
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Lost at Sea.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 10560
Thomas-Stanford, C. Early eds. of Euclid's Elements, 41
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106699
Thomas-Stanford, C. Early eds. of Euclid's Elements, 41
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106699
Genre/form
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 10560 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH83/4. Wanting last blank leaf; Yy4 bound before Yy3. With folding figures pasted into chapter 11. Brown calf binding, elaborately blind-tooled; lettered in gilt on spine: 'Billingsley's Euclid. J. Daye. 1570.'. Provenance: inscription: 'Thomas Reynolds Southan 1799', revealed under ultra-violet light on 10-29-83; bookplate of Rev'd William Staunton (motto 'en Dieu ma foy') [William Staunton]; Harmsworth copy.
Call number
STC 10560 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs73. Imperfect: wanting last blank leaf and gathering EE, supplied in photostat from another copy; there are also 4 leaves in manuscript inserted in place of part of gathering EE; t.p. torn and repaired; copy stained and wormed at end, affecting some text. Manuscript notes on verso of t.p.; some manuscript corrections. Provenance: bookplate of 'W. Hardy Newark.'; bought by Folger from Bangs sale, 27-31 June 1902: 581