The historie of foure-footed beastes
Subtitle: describing the true and lively figure of every beast, with a discourse of their severall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their love and hate to mankinde : and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction : necessary for all divines and students, because the story of every beast is amplified with narrations out of scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets : wherein are declared divers 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; Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528; Neile, Richard, 1562-1640, dedicatee; Jaggard, William, 1569-1623, printer
Publisher: Printed by William Iaggard
Published: 1607
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 757
Subjects: Zoology; Pre-Linnean works; Early works to 1800; Mythical Animals
Other titles: Historia animalium
Notes: First word of title ("The") is xylographic.

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 and Sheffield). 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." (cf. STC).

The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.

Error in pagination: page [56] misnumbered 59.

"An Epilogue to the Readers."; p. [2], at end.

Dedicated to Richard Niele (cf. leaf A3).

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.

Includes polyglot index; printed marginal notes.

George S. Huntington Library.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 24123

English short title catalogue (ESTC), S122276

In English with Latin refernces.