Titus; Philemon HOLLAND ( translator ). The Romane Historie … Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a Chronologie to the whole Historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of La

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The First Complete English Livy LIVY, Titus; Philemon HOLLAND ( translator ). The Romane Historie … Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a Chronologie to the whole Historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke. London: Adam Islip . 1600. Folio. Contemporary English calf, covers gilt and ruled in blind to a panel design, with gilt arabesque-centrepieces, cornerpieces incorporating fleurs-de-lys and crowns ( see below ), ties and endpapers renewed, corners skilfully restored, sometime sympathetically rebacked, spine gilt in compartments, raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt black morocco lettering-piece; pp. [x], 804, 809–1351, 1354–1403, [43], large woodcut printer’s device to title-page, woodcut portraits of Elizabeth I to verso of title-page, and of Livy to A4v, woodcut decorated and factotum initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces; contemporary ink marginalia and underlining to 8 pp.; extremities and boards slightly rubbed; bound without first blank, final blank partly torn away, a little browning (mainly to margins), occasional stains, outer corners of first 3 ff. skilfully restored (not affecting text), outer corners and lower margin of final 3 ff. reinforced; overall a very good copy. First edition of the first complete translation of Livy into English, and the earliest major publication of Philemon Holland (1552–1637), in a handsome contemporary binding possibly from the circle of Henry Fr

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