Author: JOSEPHUS Flavius
Title: The Lamentable and Tragicall Historie of the Wars and utter Ruine of the Jews. Comprised in Seven Bookes and newly translated out of the Latin, and French, into English, by Thomas Lodge APPARENTLY AN UNRECORDED VARIANT?
Description: Printed on Bread-street Hill, at the Sign of the Starre,, 1609. Sm. folio in sixes, with wood-engraved title-vignette and several fine wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout; seventeenth century calf, expertly rebacked in calf to style, back with five raised bands, second compartment with original red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, boards moderately age-marked, corners strengthened, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With nineteenth century inscription on front paste-down and corresponding signature on title. The work comprises: (1) A Historie in twenty books, wherein the Antiquity of the Jews is discovered; (2) Seven Books of the Wars of the Jews; (3) Two Books against Appion the Grammarian, in Justification of the Antiquity of the Jews; (4) A Book as touching the memorable Martyrdom of the Machabees; (5) Josephus Life. Written by himself. [Note that the composition of the work differs; the printed order is 1-5-2-3-4]. APPARENTLY AN UNRECORDED VARIANT. The style of the title is similar to Allison 7 (see plate 8): this copy carries the same text but with considerable variations in typography, and the title-vignette (McKerrow 335) is unframed. IMPERFECTIONS: THIS COPY WANTS THE GENERAL TITLE, DEDICATION TO LORD HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM, AND PP.3-10 (4 leaves); it retains Lodge's dedication to Anthony Palmer and his address 'To the Courteous Reader'. This copy also retains the misprinted pages (715-716 for 719-720; 522 for 555) of Allison 7. In the absence of the general title it is difficult to be certain, but it appears to be a variant dated 1609 but conforming more closely to the first edition of 1602. VERY SCARCE.

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