Assertio inclytissimi Arturij Regis Britanniae. Ioanne Lelando Antiquario autore
Publisher: printed by R. Wolfe apud Ioannem Herford John Herford
Published: 1544
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">4to. ff. [4], 39, [1]. Signatures: [A]4 B-L4. Contemporary limp
vellum, signature on flyleaf of Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount and 1st Earl
Fauconberg. Printer's name from STC; publisher's name from colophon.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Bound with two other works by Leland: Κψκνειον Ασμα: Cygnea cantio
Autore Ioanne Lelando antiquario. London, [printed by R. Wolfe], 1545; Εγκωμιον
τῆς ἐιρήνησ. Laudatio pacis. Ioanne Lelando Antiquario autore. London, Apud
Reynerum Wolfium, 1546.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">A warm defence of the authenticity of the Arthurian fables in
reply to the strictures of Polydore Vergil: see T. Kendrick, British antiquity,
New York, 1970 (orig. 1950) and M. McKisack, Medieval history in the Tudor age.
Oxford, 1971. See also W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, &amp; K. F. Pantzer
(eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, &amp;
Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London,
1976–91 (2nd ed.), 15440.</span></p><p></p>

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