Polemon, The second parte of the booke of battailes, fought in our age, 1587

POLEMON, JOHN, EDITOR

The second parte of the booke of battailes, fought in our age: taken out of the best authors and writers in sundrie languages. Published for the profit of those that practise armes, and for the pleasure of such as loue to be harmlesse hearers of bloudie broiles. London: printed for Gabriell Cawood, 1587

FIRST EDITION, small 4to (190 x 140mm.), black letter, title within typographic border, early twentieth-century blindstamped calf, ff. 29 and 30 repaired at head with loss of a few words

Includes accounts of the battles of Dreux (1562), Barow (at sea, 1574), Pescherias (i.e. Lepanto, 1572), Alcazar (1578), Lisbon (1580), St Michael (at sea, 1582) and Langside (1568). John Polemon, who edited this collection of works, may be a pseudonym.

LITERATURE:

ESTC S114774; Cockle 34

PROVENANCE:

Hengwrt Library, note on title page (home of an important collection of Welsh manuscripts); Thomas Francis Fremantle, bookplate