Sylva sylvarvm
Subtitle: or, A naturall historie, in ten centuries
By: written by the right honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ; published after the authors death by William Rawley.
Contributors: Wilson, Robert (autograph); Howard, Thomas (autograph); Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1775-1851 (bookplate); Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869 (bookplate); Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.
Publisher: Printed by J. H[aviland] for W. Lee
Published: 1627
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
Work titles: Sylva sylvarum.
Notes: Added engr. t.p.

Sheets of the 1626 ed. with a new printed t.p.  Cf. Gibson.

With, as issued, the author's New Atlantis.  English.  1627 (AHI-1439).

Gibson 171.

S.T.C. 1169.

RBSC copy: Title page bound between prelim. p. [4] and [5]. Portrait wanting.  With the autographs of Robert Wilson (front flyleaf and engr. t.p.); and of Tho. Howard (t.p.).  With two bookplates of the Earls of Derby (Edward Smith Stanley the 13th Earl, and Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, the 14th Earl [Franks 27891]?).

VUL copy lacks engr. t.p., port.