Title: Polydore Vergil's English history, from an early translation, preserved among the mss. of the old Royal Library in the British Museum. Vol. I. containing the first eight books, comprising the period prior to the Norman conquest […]
Description: Full title: Polydore Vergil's English history, from an early translation, preserved among the mss. of the old Royal Library in the British Museum. Vol. I. containing the first eight books, comprising the period prior to the Norman conquest. Edited by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. 4to. pp. xv, 324. Signatures: [a]-b4 B-Z4 2A-2S4 2T2. Cloth. Bookplate of Thomas Bell, F.R.S., with motto Facta non verba." Selborne plate on front flyleaf with motto "Palma virtutis." The only early English version of the principal contemporary refutation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's historicity (see Bib# 4102710/Fr# 148 in this collection for the original Latin version