The famous historie of Fryar Bacon, containing the wonderfull things that he did in his life, also, the manner of his death, with the lives and deaths of the two conjurors Bungye and Vandermast, very pleasant and delightfull to be read.
Friar Bacon.
Nelson, Harold(Harold Edward Hughes),1871-1948.
[Edinburgh : O. Schulze,
1908?]
Title in red and black within ornamental border; head and tail pieces initial letters.
"This edition is limited to 500 copies only."
A chap book written probably towards the end of the sixteenth century, on which Robert Greene may have founded his play "The honorable historie of Frier Bacon, and Frier Bongay." cf. A. G. Little, Roger Bacon essays.
The text is printed as Thoms' Early English prose romances, 1828 and 1858, without the introduction, etc.
Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.
Bungay, Thomas, active 1290.