Rerum anglicarum libri quinque, Recens ceu è tenebris eruti, & in studiosorum gratiam in lucem dati: Auctore Gulielmo Neubrigensi. Cum rerum memorabilium luculentissimo Indice

8vo. pp. [2] (blank), [17], 519, [20], [4] (blank). Signatures: A-2M⁸. Page numbers are not in order. Early vellum, remnants of ties ad spine label. Inscription of Baumburg Monastery on title page. Marginalia. Engraved vignette on title page (printer's device). Engraved initials, tailpieces.   First printing of William’s denunciation 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, W 187; M. A. Shaaber, Check-list of Works of British Authors Printed Abroad, in Languages other than English, to 1641. New York, 1975, W104.   Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.