The historie of the vvorld. : In five bookes. 1 Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the Creation unto Abraham. ... 5 From the settled rule of Alexanders successors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon. /
Raleigh, Walter,Sir,1552?-1618.
Lawrence, Thomas,1725-1797,former owner.StEdNL
Champion, Richard,of Bristol,former owner.StEdNL
[London : Printed [by Robert Young] for G. Lathum, and R. Young,
M.DC.XXXIV. [1634]]
With an engraved titlepage portrait of Raleigh.
With an additional engraved title page dated 1614 (the same found in previous editions).
Publishers' names and publication date from colophon; printer's name from STC.
The first leaf contains The minde of the front. Variant: this text printed on verso of engraved title page.
The first part of the historie of the vvorld ... The third booke begins new pagination; register is continuous.
Includes indexes.
STC (2nd ed.)
ESTC
Tipped in after the front flyleaf is a handwritten copy, in a formal 17th century hand, of a statement made by Raleigh the night before his execution in which he answers the accusations made against him. This work was eventually printed in 1829 in Raleigh's completed "Works" at the end of the 'Apology'. (Oxford, vol. viii, p.506). Tipped in after this is a memorandum written in 1771 by Thomas Lawrence recording how he obtained the book. He incorrectly records that the letter by Raleigh was an original by Raleigh himself. In this letter he names Mr. Richard Champion, a merchant of Bristol, as the former owner upon whose death he acquired the book.
History, Ancient