The Augustus De Morgan Collection, Part 1: Pre-1600 Rare Books Collection
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Title:
Three bookes of colloquies concerning the arte of shooting ::in great and small peeces of artillerie, variable randges, measure, and waight of leaden, yron, and marble stone pellets, minerall saltepeeter, gunpowder of diuers sortes, and the cause why some sortes of gunpower are corned, and some sortes of gunpowder are not corned /
Creator:
Tartaglia, Niccolò,d. 1557.
- Brand, John,1744-1806,former owner.
- Dawson, Thomas,d. 1620,printer.
- De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.
- Harrison, John,d. 1617,publisher.
- Lucar, Cyprian,b. 1544.
- Pyne, Richard,former owner.
- Brand, John,1744-1806,former owner.
- Dawson, Thomas,d. 1620,printer.
- De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.
- Harrison, John,d. 1617,publisher.
- Lucar, Cyprian,b. 1544.
- Pyne, Richard,former owner.
Date:
1588
Date in Source:
1588.
Imprint:
Imprinted at London : [by Thomas Dawson] for Iohn Harrison [the elder],
Language:
English
Format:
[8], 80, [4], 120, [2] p., [4] folded leaves of plates :ill., coats of arms ;28 cm. (fol.)
Reference:
Cockle, M.J.D. Military books, 38
ESTC, S101739
Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 23689
STC (2nd ed.), 23689
Note:
- Colophon on p. 120: At London printed by Thomas Dawson, for Iohn Harrison the elder, at the signe of the greyhounde in Paules churchyarde, and are to be solde. 1588.
- Original sub title page on G5 with device McKerrow 236 is sometimes replaced by cancel bifolium with sub title page with cut of mortar shooting and errata on verso of 2nd leaf; both varieties in Harvard University Library copy. Harvard also has cancel G3,4 with G3r line 5 from bottom ending "saide" instead of "sayde" as in the British Library copy -- STC.
- Signatures: [thus]4 A-F6 G6(+G3.4,+G5) H-R6 [S]1
- Stationer's Register: Entered 30 October 1587.
- With a final errata leaf.
- ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan, with his inscription and underlinings on t.p. T.p. inscriptions in early hand: "Richard Pyne"; "A.H." Engraved bookplate of J. Brand, Lincoln College, Oxford, pasted on back flyleaf, dated 1807.
- ULL copy has both the cancellans and the cancellandum of leaf G5.
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004409286_MOR1-b29101402
- Colophon on p. 120: At London printed by Thomas Dawson, for Iohn Harrison the elder, at the signe of the greyhounde in Paules churchyarde, and are to be solde. 1588.
- Original sub title page on G5 with device McKerrow 236 is sometimes replaced by cancel bifolium with sub title page with cut of mortar shooting and errata on verso of 2nd leaf; both varieties in Harvard University Library copy. Harvard also has cancel G3,4 with G3r line 5 from bottom ending "saide" instead of "sayde" as in the British Library copy -- STC.
- Signatures: [thus]4 A-F6 G6(+G3.4,+G5) H-R6 [S]1
- Stationer's Register: Entered 30 October 1587.
- With a final errata leaf.
- ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan, with his inscription and underlinings on t.p. T.p. inscriptions in early hand: "Richard Pyne"; "A.H." Engraved bookplate of J. Brand, Lincoln College, Oxford, pasted on back flyleaf, dated 1807.
- ULL copy has both the cancellans and the cancellandum of leaf G5.
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004409286_MOR1-b29101402
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