Three bookes of colloquies concerning the arte of shooting : in great and small peeces of artillerie, variable randges, measure, and waight of leaden, yron, and marble stone pellets, minerall saltepeeter, gunpowder of diuers sortes, and the cause why some sortes of gunpower are corned, and some sortes of gunpowder are not corned: written in Italian, and dedicated by Nicholas Tartaglia vnto the Royall Prince of most famous memorie Henrie the eight, late King of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith &c. And now translated into English by Cyprian Lucar Gent. who hath also augmented the volume of the saide colloquies with the contents of euery colloquie, and with all the corollaries and tables, that are in the same volume. Also the said Cyprian Lucar hath annexed vnto the same three books of colloquies a treatise named Lucar Appendix ...
1588
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Three bookes of colloquies concerning the arte of shooting : in great and small peeces of artillerie, variable randges, measure, and waight of leaden, yron, and marble stone pellets, minerall saltepeeter, gunpowder of diuers sortes, and the cause why some sortes of gunpower are corned, and some sortes of gunpowder are not corned: written in Italian, and dedicated by Nicholas Tartaglia vnto the Royall Prince of most famous memorie Henrie the eight, late King of England, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith &c. And now translated into English by Cyprian Lucar Gent. who hath also augmented the volume of the saide colloquies with the contents of euery colloquie, and with all the corollaries and tables, that are in the same volume. Also the said Cyprian Lucar hath annexed vnto the same three books of colloquies a treatise named Lucar Appendix ...
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Printed at London : [by Thomas Dawson] for Iohn Harrison [the elder], 1588.
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[8], 80, [4], 120, [2] p. : ill. ; (fol.)
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Printer's name and that Harrison is the elder from colophon.
Original sub title page on G5 with device McKerrow 236 is sometimes replaced by cancel bifolium with sub title page with cut of mortar shooting and errata on verso of 2nd leaf; both varieties in Harvard University. Library copy. Harvard also has cancel G3,4 with G3r line 5 from bottom ending "saide" instead of "sayde" as in the British Library copy--STC.
With a final errata leaf.
Stationers' register: Entered 30 October 1587.
Signatures: [thus]⁴ A-F⁶ G⁶(±G3.4,±G5) H-R⁶ [S]1.
Original sub title page on G5 with device McKerrow 236 is sometimes replaced by cancel bifolium with sub title page with cut of mortar shooting and errata on verso of 2nd leaf; both varieties in Harvard University. Library copy. Harvard also has cancel G3,4 with G3r line 5 from bottom ending "saide" instead of "sayde" as in the British Library copy--STC.
With a final errata leaf.
Stationers' register: Entered 30 October 1587.
Signatures: [thus]⁴ A-F⁶ G⁶(±G3.4,±G5) H-R⁶ [S]1.
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Curatorial file available for copy 1.
ESTC staff note
rpm 07/25/96
Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE jre: title reads: "...Also the saide Cyprian...same three bookes...[finish title transcription?]"; imprint begins: "Imprinted at London..."; 6 plates: 5 folded, including a table and 1 double page; final errata leaf: in mf copy copy appears to be same as errata leaf in cancel bifolium [chi]²: Folger card catalogue suggests that [S]1 printed as conjugate to cancel G5, but meant to be bound at end; slip cancel on C2r in DFo copy 1, evidence of slip in copy 2; colophon also provides address: "...at the signe of the Greyhounde in Paules Churchyarde, and are there to be solde. 1588."
Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE jre: title reads: "...Also the saide Cyprian...same three bookes...[finish title transcription?]"; imprint begins: "Imprinted at London..."; 6 plates: 5 folded, including a table and 1 double page; final errata leaf: in mf copy copy appears to be same as errata leaf in cancel bifolium [chi]²: Folger card catalogue suggests that [S]1 printed as conjugate to cancel G5, but meant to be bound at end; slip cancel on C2r in DFo copy 1, evidence of slip in copy 2; colophon also provides address: "...at the signe of the Greyhounde in Paules Churchyarde, and are there to be solde. 1588."
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Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 23689
Cockle, M.J.D. Military books, 38
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S101739
Cockle, M.J.D. Military books, 38
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S101739
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STC 23689 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH200/18. Slip cancel on C2r; G3.4 are cancellanda; G5 cancellandum survives, bound after cancel G5. [S]1 (errata leaf) bound after G4, still conjugate with cancel G5. Half sheepskin binding with marbled paper boards. Provenance: Pickering, Aug. 1920, no. 3043; Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 23689 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs1232. Imperfect: lacking sig.[thus], including t.p.; lacking [S]1 (errata leaf). Cancel G5 bd. before A1. G5 cancellandum present; G3.4 not cancelled. Evidence of slip cancel on C2r. Scattered manuscript markings, including manuscript numbered, "163" at head of t.p. A4v stained, affecting text. Cambridge-style binding; red leather spine label with stamped title "Tartalias Collo of Shooting". Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "Sr. Robt [Robert] Darkwood Barot:";
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STC 23689 copy 3
Folger-specific note
cs1084. Imperfect: lacking all before G5; lacking 3 plates. G5, cancellandum, present. Cancel G5 plus conjugate [S]1 (errata leaf) bd. after G6. Plates and woodcuts hand colored throughout. Two extra leaves of ill. bd. in after L3 and N4. Sig.R with edges repaired, affecting text. Half cloth binding with marbled paper boards. Provenance: bought by Folger from Lowe, 1924, cat. 932