The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions, of the best mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull prÆface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scie[n]ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies, greatly missed.
Euclid.
Dee, John,1527-1608.
Candale, François de Foix,comte de,1502-1594.
Billingsley, Henry,Sir,-1606.
Newbattle Abbey College,former owner.StEdNL
Lothian, William Kerr,Marquess of,approximately 1690-1767,former owner.StEdNL
Lake, Arthur,1569-1626,former owner.StEdNL
Imprinted at London : by Iohn Daye,
[1570 (3 Feb.]]
With a sixteenth book added by François de Foix, comte de Candale.
Colophon reads: At London printed by Iohn Daye, dvvelling ouer Aldersgate beneath Saint Martins. These bookes are to be solde at his shop vnder the gate. 1570.
The folded table, dated 25 Feb. 1570 and showing the topics covered in Dee's preface, gives the date of the book's publication as 3 Feb.
Book 11 has onlays intended to be pasted at one edge over the illustrations. These were printed together on six bifolia. Variant: these bifolia are still intact and bound with book.
The last leaf is blank.
STC (2nd ed.),
Thomas-Stanford, C.  Early eds. of Euclid's Elements,
ESTC
Boosktamp on the front pastedown "Newbattle Abbey Library". Bookplate on the verso of the flyleaf preceeding the title page "The Most Honble William Marquis of Lothian". Inscription on the title page "ευρε...σικαιωσ, σωθπορωσ Sigeu[?] ue[?] Silos[?] A Lak Pret [[13]]s Ano 1592. 2. Januarij". Inscription in Greek on the following flyleaf "οχγματα υευτε πλατωυοσ ς πυδυγορασ σορφσ ευρε πυδαγορασ σοφοσ ευρε πλατωυ σαριδγλ σδιδαξευ Ευξλειδησ επι τοισι κλεοσ περικαλλεσ ετευξευ". The heading is almost totally lost due to the trimming of the flyleaf. Headings to each of the sections at fol.1-7v of the text in Greek, at fol.8 in Greek and Latin, and at fol.10-16v in Latin. All these additions appear to be in the same hand, which may possibly be that of Arthur Lake, later Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Geometry