Signatures: A-C⁸.; Without pagination.; Title within border of type ornaments; type ornament head-piece.; Woodcut title vignette and illustration.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.; Furness copy acquired for the Penn Libraries at auction by Sotheby's, 26 October 2016, lot 10. Formerly owned by Dr. Howard and Mrs. Linda Knohl, with their illustrated bookplate ("FOX POINTE COLLECTION LIBRARY OF Dr. & Mrs. H.R. Knohl") on front free endpaper.; Furness copy has bookplate ("E LIBRIS HENRICI CVNLIFFE ARMIGERI") of Henry Cunliffe on front pastedown.; Furness copy has photoreproduction of bookseller's typescript description of this copy with ms. notes laid in.; Furness copy bound in full 19th-century calf; boards tooled in blind with gold corner rosettes; 4 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; author's name and imprint place and date stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; all edges gilt.; Furness copy: leaves closely cropped at all margins with damage to fore-edge title border and occasional damage to headline.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, BF1681 .E7 1694
Collection:
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund; Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
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