The historie of foure-footed beastes
Subtitle: Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in theircreation, preseruation, and destruction. Necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of Scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets: wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day
By: By Edward Topsell
Contributors: Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565
Publisher: Printed by William Iaggard
Published: 1607
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 757
Subjects: Mammals; Zoology; Severe Teratoid Abnormalities; Monsters
Other titles: Historie of fovre-footed beastes.
Notes: First word of title ("The") is xylographic.

"A table of the names of all the beastes contayned in this hystory, in divers languages": 10 pages at end.

Error in pagination: page 56 mis-numbered 59.

Signatures: A⁶ [par.]⁶ 2[par.]⁸ *² B-2V⁶ 3A-3X⁶ 3Y⁸.

The first and last leaf are blank.

Largely a translation of book 1 of Gesner's Historia animalium, with additions by Topsell.

Title page varies: with cut of hyena (used for sea wolf on p. 749) or of gorgon (most copies; not illustrated in the text pp. 262-3); examples of both at British Library. B1, 2, 5, 6 in 2 settings; B2r catchword: 'they'; B6r line 1: 'crowne' (Huntington Library) or 'gers' and 'Crowne' (Harvard). In some copies (one of the British Library copies, for example) there is an extra leaf after F4 with heading: 'The Picture of the vulger Bugill Folio 57.' (STC).

STC (2nd. ed.), 24123.

ESTC, S122276.

ESTC S122276.

STC (2nd ed.), 24123.