A record of auncient histories.
By: Newly perused by Richard Robinson (1595). A facsim. reproduction with an introd. by John Weld.
Contributors: Robinson, Richard, fl. 1576-1603.
Publisher: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Delmar, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English.; Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English.; Tales, Medieval -- Translations into English.; Exempla -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Translations into English.; Early works to 1800.
Notes: Bibliography: p. xi.
Original t.p. reads: A record of auncient histories, intituled in Latin: Gesta Romanorum. Discoursing upon sundry examples for the aduauncement of vertue, and the abandoning of vice. No lease pleasant in reading, then profitable in practise. Now newly perused and corrected by R. Robinson, citizen of London. Imprinted at London by Thomas Est, 1595.
Missing leaves from the 1595 ed. supplied from the 1602 and 1610 editions.
STC 21288.