The life and death of Hector
Subtitle: one and the first of the most puissant, valiant, and renowned monarches of the world called the nyne worthies : shewing his jnvincible force, together with the marvailous and most famous acts by him atchieved and done in the great, long, and terrible siege, which the princes of Greece held about the tovvne of Troy, for the space of tenne yeares : and finally his vnfortunate death after hee had fought a hundred mayne battailes in open field against the Grecians, the which heerein are all at large described, wherein there were sla[i]ne on both sides fourteene hundred, and sixe thowsand, fourscore, and sixe men
By: written by John Lidgate ...
Contributors: Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?; Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.; Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Purfoot, Thomas, d. 1615, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Purfoot.
Published: 1614
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Hector (Legendary character) -- Romances.; Trojan War -- Early works to 1800.; Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends.
Genres: Romances.; Early works to 1800.; Legends.
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 5581.5
In verse.
A modernized version of Lydgate's Troy book, which is adapted from Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troiae. Cf. Henry Bergen's Bibliographical introduction in Lydgate's Troy book (Early English Text Society, extra series 126).
"Usually erroneously attrib. to T. Heywood"--STC.
Signatures: [par.]⁶ B-2C⁶ 2D⁴.
Numerous errors in paging; 126-131 repeated in the numbering.
LC copy imperfect: first and last blank leaves wanting.