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Great Britain
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Folger bibliographic ID: 271274
ESTC number: S118571
STC number: 12621a
Folger call number: STC 12621a
Folger holdings ID: 357411
Accession Number: 267898
Notes
Edition
The second edition / augmented by the authour
Bibliographic format
twelvemo
General notes
A page-for-page resetting of the first edition (1608), augmented with 32 additional pages (gatherings H and I). Leaf I1r (page [175]) reads: "Being not willing to burden the text with these ensuing collections ... I thought good in this seco[n]d editio[n] ... to reserue them to this place." The additional section is not included in the table of contents. Leaves H5,6 (pages [171-174]) as well as leaf I10 (pages [23-24] at end) are blank. Most extant copies of the 1608 second edition end with page 170 Signatures: A-G¹² H⁶ I¹²(-I11,12); H5,6 and I10 blank
Item information about Folger STC 12621a
This is the only known perfect copy of this edition containing gathering I ([24] pages at end. Misbound (folding error): leaf I6 bound before I5. Inscription: Raphe Wilbraham his booke, the gift of his deare brother in law Mr. Richard Minshull. Armorial bookplate (motto: In portu quies): George Fortescue Wilbraham. Manuscript numbers. In contemporary laced-case vellum binding with spine title and remainders of ties. Acquired from L'Auspierre, 2013-03-01
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Alternate titles: Vanity of the eye
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printer: Barnes, Joseph, -1618
active 17th century: Wilbraham, Raphe
former owner: Mynshall, Richard, 1582-1637
former owner: Wilbraham, George Fortescue, 1815-1885