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Two tracts: Affrican and Mensola, an Elizabethan prose version of Il ninfale fiesolano

Title
Two tracts: Affrican and Mensola, an Elizabethan prose version of Il ninfale fiesolano, by Giovanni Boccaccio, and Newes and strange newes from St. Christophers, by John Taylor the Water poet.
Publication
Oxford, Printed [at the University Press] for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 1946.

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Additional Authors
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
  • Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
  • Wilkinson, Cyril Hackett, 1888-1960.
  • Roxburghe Club
Description
xxxi p., 4 l., 40 f., 8 l., 13 p., 1 l. illus., facsims.; 26 cm.
Alternative Title
  • Affrican and Mensola.
  • Newes and strange newes from St. Christophers.
Note
  • "Dedicated and presented to the president and members of the Roxburghe club by ... C.H. Wilkinson."
  • Reprint, with facsimiles of the original title pages, of "two tracts ... left by George Clarke to the library of Worcester College [Oxford] in 1736."
  • With Wilkinson's presentation slip, and label of John Hely-Hutchinson, 1948.
Contents
A Famous tragicall discourse of two louers, Affrican, and Mensola ... London, 1597.--Ninfale fiesolano [facsim. of t.p. of the Florence, 1568 edition, and reproductions of its woodcut illustrations and of two other woodcuts from a lost fifteenth century edition]--Newes and strange Newes from St. Christophers of a tempestuous Spirit, which is called by the Indians a Hurry-Cano ... London, 1638.
Call Number
*KP (Roxburghe) (Two tracts: Affrican and Mensola)
LCCN
78234271 //r85
OCLC
74290
Title
Two tracts: Affrican and Mensola, an Elizabethan prose version of Il ninfale fiesolano, by Giovanni Boccaccio, and Newes and strange newes from St. Christophers, by John Taylor the Water poet.
Imprint
Oxford, Printed [at the University Press] for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 1946.
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Added Author
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. Ninfale fiesolano. 1946.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653. New and strange news from St. Christophers. 1946.
Wilkinson, Cyril Hackett, 1888-1960.
Roxburghe Club.
Added Title
Affrican and Mensola.
Newes and strange newes from St. Christophers.
Research Call Number
*KP (Roxburghe) (Two tracts: Affrican and Mensola)
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