The Elizabethan zoo;
a book of beasts both fabulous and authentic.

Description

Main Author

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?

Related Names

Byrne, M. St. Clare (Muriel St. Clare), 1895-, ed.
Pliny, the Elder.

Language(s)

English

Published

London, F. Etchells & H. Macdonald, 1926.

Subjects

Animals, Mythical.
Animals > Animals / Folklore

Note

Extracts from Edward Topsell's Historie of foure footed beastes (1607) and his Historie of serpents (1608) supplemented by additional matter taken from Phllemon Holland's translation of Pliny's Natural history (1601) Edited by M. St. Clare Byrne. cf. Introd.
"Of this edition, printed in England...by the Cambridge university press, 525 numbered copies have been issued. This is no. 22."

Physical Description

xiv, 171 [1] p. illus., fold. map. 27 cm.

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