Heroologia Anglica
Subtitle: hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum : aliqout [sic] Anglorum, qui floruerunt ab anno Cristi. M.D. vsq[ue] ad presentem annum M.D.C.XX viuae effigies vitae et elogia : duobus tomis
By: Authore. H.H. Anglo-Britanno
Contributors: Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637; Passe, Magdalena van de, 1600-approximately 1638, engraver; Passe, Willem van de, 1598-approximately 1637, engraver; Parker, Nonus, former owner; Bedingfeld, Richard, former owner
Publisher: Impensis Crispini Passaei calcographus [sic], et Iansonij bibliopolae Arnhemiensis
Published: 1620
Place of publication: Arnhem]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Portraits; Early works to 1800; Biography
Notes: H.H. = Henry Holland.

The title page is engraved by Crispijn van de Passe; the portraits are engraved by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe.

The first "o" in "Heroologia" is a Greek omega.

Printer's and publisher's names from STC.

Signatures: )(℗£́ʻ A-V́œ chi1.

Engraved title page; head- and tailpieces; initials.

Includes index (final leaf).

A variant has an unsigned leaf of verses by I. Gruterus inserted in the first quire.

STC (2nd ed.), 13582

English short title catalogue, entry S119103

Cataloged 2015 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early vellum over pasteboards double-panelled in gilt. The spine is ruled in blind with a red leather label at the head. The royal arms of England, being three lions argent over a cartouche, are stamped in gilt onto the center of both covers. The armorial bookplate of Sir. Richard Bedingfeld is present on the front pastedown. The verso of the front free endpaper contains a half-page bibligoraphical inscription signed by Bedingfeld. The name Kingsley is inscribed at the top of )(2. The inscription "Ubig[?] veritatem Nonus Parker, 1675" is present at the head of )(3.