The foreste or Collection of histories, no lesse profitable, then pleasant and necessarie
By: dooen out of Frenche into Englishe, by Thomas Fortescue
Contributors: Fortescue, Thomas; Clermont, Thomas Fortescue, baron, 1815-1887
Publisher: by Ihon Kyngston, for Willyam Iones.
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Other titles: Collection of histories.
Work titles: Silva de varia leccion
Notes: Author's name mentioned in the dedication (leaf [3] recto) as: Petrus Messia.

Translation, by Thomas Fortescue, of: Les divers leçons de Pierre Messie gentil-homme de Seuile, contenans le lecture de variables histoires et autres choses mémorables, augmentées du quatriesme livre. Paris, 1554, which in turn is a translation, by Claude Gruget, of: Silva de varia leción. Ultimamente agora emendada, y añadida la quarta parte della por el autor. Antwerp, 1554.

Illustrated title page.

Colophon: Imprinted at London by Ihon Kingston, for VVilliam Iones, and are to be soulde at his newe long shoppe at the weste ende of Poules.

According to STC, gatherings A-N printed by H. Wykes.

Signatues: a⁴ b² A-2Z⁴ 2.

Numerous errors in foliation.

Text divided into four parts.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:245.

Sabin 48246.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 167333.

STC (2nd ed.) 17849.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Thomas Fortescue, baron, 1815-1887 : autograph.