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Selected image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 20637 copy 1
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Selected image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 20637 copy 2
Details
Title
The history of the world.
Created/published
At London : Printed [by William Stansby] for Walter Burre [, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane], 1614.
Description
[76], 492, 491-651, [3], 776, [64] p., [8] folded plates : maps, genealogical tables (woodcuts) ; (fol.)
Associated name
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618, author.
Elstracke, Renold, active 1590-1630, printmaker.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Elstracke, Renold, active 1590-1630, printmaker.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Note
Anonymous. By Sir Walter Raleigh.
The title page is engraved and signed: Ren: Elstrack sculpsit.
Printer's name and bookseller's address from colophon.
The first leaf contains "The minde of the front.".
With slip-cancel on leaf E1v.
"The first part of the historie of the vvorld .. The third booke" (caption title) begins new pagination on 4A1r.
Includes indexes.
Leaves 3K4 and 7C6 are blank.
With errata slip.
Identified as STC 20637a on UMI microfilm reel 1359.
Signatures: pi² [superscript pi]A-E⁴, a-c⁶ d², B-C⁶ D⁶(±D6) E⁶(±E4) F⁶ G⁶(±G1) H-3I⁶ 3K⁴, 4A-6T⁶ 6V-6Y⁴, 7A-7C⁶.
Entered 15 April 1611.
The title page is engraved and signed: Ren: Elstrack sculpsit.
Printer's name and bookseller's address from colophon.
The first leaf contains "The minde of the front.".
With slip-cancel on leaf E1v.
"The first part of the historie of the vvorld .. The third booke" (caption title) begins new pagination on 4A1r.
Includes indexes.
Leaves 3K4 and 7C6 are blank.
With errata slip.
Identified as STC 20637a on UMI microfilm reel 1359.
Signatures: pi² [superscript pi]A-E⁴, a-c⁶ d², B-C⁶ D⁶(±D6) E⁶(±E4) F⁶ G⁶(±G1) H-3I⁶ 3K⁴, 4A-6T⁶ 6V-6Y⁴, 7A-7C⁶.
Entered 15 April 1611.
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available for copy 1.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Copy 1. 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), 20637
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 820
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S116300
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 820
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S116300
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Selected image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 20637 copy 1
Selected image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 20637 copy 2
Selected image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 20637 copy 2
Genre/form
Annotations.
Printed waste.
Underscoring.
Printed waste.
Underscoring.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 20637 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH175/14. Slip-cancel on E1v; D6, E4, and G1 are cancels. Manuscript notes on K2v, K3r, K6r, M3r, T6v; manuscript correction to [superscript pi]C4r; burn-hole, H3; map belonging after 5D4 misbound after 2E4. Bound in old calf, all edges stained red, with binder's title: "Ralegh's history of the world". Provenance: Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 20637 copy 2 (flat)
Folger-specific note
Manuscript corrections on [superscript pi]C4r, [superscript pi]D2r, 4Z1r, 6L1r; manuscript note on 4V6v; underscoring on 6K6v-6L1r; pasted-on errata slip at 7C5r; holes or small stains on 5Q3 and 5Y4, affecting text. Bound in old calf gilt, with remnants of green silk ties; printed waste (black-letter Bible leaves) used in binding. Provenance: Sir Walter Raleigh copy, with monogram "WR" on A1v in his hand (Folger files); manuscript inscription scrawled over on front fly-leaf (illegible); manuscript on front paste-down: Sotheby's, 5/7 December 1955; collection of Donald and Mary Hyde, with their bookplate; gift of Mrs. Hyde to Folger (Collectors Club), June 1979
Folger accession
218918