Accession number
PML 6321.1
Creator
Horace.
Object title
A medicinable morall : that is, the two bookes of Horace his Satyres / Englyshed accordyng to the prescription of Saint Hieromiah ; The wailyngs of the prophet Hieremiah, done into Englyshe verse ; also epigrammes / T. Drant.
Published
Imprinted at London in Fletestrete : by Thomas Marshe, MDLXVI [1566].
Description
[190] p. ; 20 cm
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
The first edition of the first English translation of Horace.
First ed. (STC 13805) first issue with the dedication to Lady Bacon on verso of title.
Signatures: a⁴; A-L⁸ M⁴.
The title page verso bears a dedication to Lady Bacon and Lady Cecil. Variant 1: this page blank. Variant 2: with two errata leaves.
PML copy with dedication but without errata leaves.
First ed. (STC 13805) first issue with the dedication to Lady Bacon on verso of title.
Signatures: a⁴; A-L⁸ M⁴.
The title page verso bears a dedication to Lady Bacon and Lady Cecil. Variant 1: this page blank. Variant 2: with two errata leaves.
PML copy with dedication but without errata leaves.
Binding
18th/19th-century English gilt-tooled black straight-grained morocco.
Provenance
Thomas Juxon, signature, 16th century (title page); Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), signature (title page), see Bod-inc provenance index; Thomas Park (1759-1834), signatures, 1792 (Medicinable title page and M4v); Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), purchased from J.O. Wright, Aug. 1887; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with Irwin collection, 1900.
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