Polydori Vergilii urbinatis Anglicæ historiæ libri XXVI

Folio. pp. [2], 600 [i.e. 610], [48]. Signatures: a-z6, A-Z6, Aa-Ii6. Modern calf. Ownership inscriptions of Henricus Goosens, William Wavell, William Brattir, and Hugo Gray [?] Frenibales [?]. Verse by Simon Grynaeus on title page. Work dedicated to Henry VIII.   The first edition of Vergil’s Anglicae historiae libri XXVI, which includes his refutation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae (ca. 1135), an influential patriotic medieval forgery. H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, V 446. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.