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VERGIL, POLYDORE. Anglicae historiae libri XXVI. Woodcut historiated borders on a2r and a3r. [2], 600 [i. e., 610], [48] pages. Folio, 328x216 mm, later calf, rebacked, lower outer corner of front cover restored; marginal dampstaining at beginning and end, numerous partly cropped marginalia, title soiled with portion of blank upper margin excised, printer's device partly tinted, early owner's inscription. Basel: Jo. Bebelius, 1534
first edition. "Polidoro is remembered today primarily for his Anglica historia, which scholars have seen as the beginning of modern English historiography, as an important piece of propaganda for the Tudor monarchy, and as an influence on Shakespeare's history plays"--Contemporaries of Erasmus III, 339.
