Title: Historiae brytannicae defensio, Ioanne Priseo equestris ordinis Brytanno authore
Description: <p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">4to.
f. <span style="color:rgb(33,37,41);">[1] (blank), pp. [36], 160,
[30] (last blank)</span>. </span><span lang="fr" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);" xml:lang="fr">Signatures: [par.]⁴ *⁶ **⁴ ***⁴ A-X⁴ Y1 2A-2B⁴ 2C².</span> <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Calf. Gilt boards
and spine. Edges spread in red. bookstamp of H.N. Leftwich. <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">Title vignette: device of Henry
Bynneman with motto "Armipotent Angliæ".</span> Engraved initials,
tailpieces.</span> Printed annotations. "De Mona Druidum insula,
antiquitati suae restituta (cuius in Angliae descriptione meminimus) Epistola
Nobilis &amp; eruditi viri Humfredi Lhuyd: in qua etiam de Armamentario Romano,
cuius in Hollandia facta est mentio, non inelegans disceptatio" at p.
[11-29] at end. Includes index.</span></p><p></p>

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<p class="marcline" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:#FFFFFF;"><span class="marclinepart"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;">A protest by Sir John Price (1502?-1555)
against the Anglicae historiae libri XXVI of Polydorus Vergilius (Bib# 4102710/Fr#
148 in this collection); </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">see T.D. Kendrick, British antiquity. New
York, 1970, p. 88. In the present work, John Price warmly defended the tales of
Camelot as recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth (Bib# 955819), which were finally
and definitively discredited by John Selden a century later (Tracts, 1683; Bib#
4102714/Fr# 152). See also W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, &amp; K. F. Pantzer
(eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, &amp;
Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London,
1976–91 (2<sup>nd</sup> ed.), 20309.</span></p><p></p>

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