Title: Epistolia, dialogi breves, oratiunculæ, poematia, Ex variis utriusque linguæ scriptoribus. Inter poematia autem est satyra elegantissima, quæ inscribitur Lis, non priùs edita. Henr. Steph. Lectori Ut varia utroque scripta sermone hîc vides [...]
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;"><b>Full title:</b> Epistolia, dialogi breves, oratiunculæ, poematia, Ex variis utriusque linguæ scriptoribus. Inter poematia autem est satyra elegantissima, quæ inscribitur Lis, non priùs edita. Henr. Steph. Lectori Ut varia utroque scripta sermone hîc vides, Que varia variis exarata autoribus, Ita brevitatis hîc &amp; elegantiæ Spectare varia tibi datur certamina.</span></p> 

<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;"><br /></span></p><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;"> 8vo. pp. 276, 120 (Errors in paging: 218-220 for 118-120 (at end)). Early vellum, bound with ‘Epigrammata graeca, selecta ex Anthologia,’ Paris, 1570. Printer’s mark on title page. “Pio juveni Jaco Ad Portum Tri al dono misit ciene [cut off]” inked on title page. Stamp of Leonard L. Mackall.</span></p><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;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">First printing of an anthology in which the scholarly editor Boxhorn was famously deceived by the statesman and poet Michel de L’Hôpital’s hoax or forgery entitled ‘De Lite,’ a crypto-medieval composition described as ‘satyra incerti autoris, quae inscribitur Lis’ (sigs. hh3r–hh4v).</span></font><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> See H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, E294.
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