The auncient historie and onely trewe and syncere cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans
Subtitle: and subsequently of the fyrst evercyon of the auncient and famouse cytye of Troye under Lamedon the king, and of the laste and fynall destruction of the same under Pryam
By: wrytten by Daretus a Troyan and Dictus a Grecian both souldiours and present in all the sayde warres and digested in Latyn by the lerned Guydo de Columpnis and sythes translated in to englyshe verse by Iohn Lydgate moncke of Burye
Contributors: Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century; Braham, Robert, author of introduction, etc; Dictys, Cretensis; Marsh, Thomas, active 1554-1587, printer; Benoit, de Sainte-More, active 12th century; McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899, former owner
Edition: And newly imprinted.
Publisher: In Fletestrete at the sygne of the Princes armes, by Thomas Marshe
Published: 1555
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: enm
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Romances, legends
Work titles: Historia destructionis Troiae
Notes: Signatures: [A]℗ø B-Źœ 2A-2Ćœ 2D-2Éþ.

Errors in signatures: N2, T2, 2C2, and 2C3, printed N3, T3, C2, B3.

Imprint taken from colophon.

Title within woodcut border (McKerrow-Ferguson, 75),illustrating the genealogy of Henry VIII.

" ... a very much amplified version ... of the prose Latin 'Historia destructionis Troiae' of Guido delle Colonne (about 1287) ... in turn a condensed version of the 'Roman deTroie' of Beno¿t de Sainte More (about 1160)"--Lydgate, J. Lydgate's Troy book. Early English Text Society, extra series 97, p. ix.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 5580

English short title catalogue, S107244

Cataloged 20170518 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early blind tooled calf rebacked in modern brown goatskin. Title stamped in gilt on the spine. Bookplate of Thomas Jefferson McKee on the front pastedown. Embossed and perforation stamps of the BPL on the title page. Leaves D5, V6 and X1 remargined and possibly inserted from another copy/copies. 2E4 cut down to the text and laid into a new sheet. Early/contemporary marginalia on various leaves.