The pityfull Historie of two loving Italians, Gaulfrido and Barnardo le vayne

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Foolscap 4to. pp. iv, [56]. Signatures: [A]4 B-G4. Original morocco-backed boards. Copy no. 22 of 25 printed, inscribed by John Payne Collier to Viscount Acheson. Bookplate of Judge William Dale Young on front pastedown.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The first of Collier’s three undated reprints of 1844-1845. The unique original, a verse history translated by the otherwise obscure John Drout (or Grout), was printed in 1570 by Henry Binneman (STC 7241.5) and was lent to Collier by the Anglo-Saxon scholar and Egyptologist Charles Wycliffe Goodwin. See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 428-429; II, A56, which, i.a., discusses doubts about the genuineness of the original poem.</span><br /></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;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117139" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>