Gildae, cui cognomentum est sapientis, de excidio & conquestu Britanniae, ac flebili castigatione in reges, principes, & sacerdotes epistola : vetustissimorum exemplarioru[m] auxilio non solum a me[n]dis plurimis vindicata, sed etiam accessione eoru[m], quae in prima editione a Polydoro Vergilio refecta erant, multipliciter aucta.

Gildae, cui cognomentum est sapientis, de excidio & conquestu Britanniae, ac flebili castigatione in reges, principes, & sacerdotes epistola : vetustissimorum exemplarioru[m] auxilio non solum a me[n]dis plurimis vindicata, sed etiam accessione eoru[m], quae in prima editione a Polydoro Vergilio refecta erant, multipliciter aucta.

Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae

[London] : 1568. Londini excudebat Ioannes Daius, [1568]

[8], 99, [1] leaves ; (8vo)

Editor's dedication signed: Ioan. Iosselinus.

Imprimatur at foot of title page: Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis per decennium.

The last leaf is blank.

Running title reads: Epistola Gildae.

Signatures: A-N⁸ O⁴.

Preface signed at end "Tui studiosus cliens et seruus Ioan. Iosselinus."; A variant is signed "Tui studiosus cliens domesticus Ioaen. Iosselinus.".

A reissue, with imprint date reset, of the 1567 edition.

Signatures from DFo.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 11894
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S103121

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 11894 copy 1

HH95/29. Brown panelled goatskin binding, gold-tooled. Variant. Wanting sig. A8. Provenance: inscription on front free endpaper: 'Leighton Sale May 1919 Lot 1222'; collated by F. S. Ferguson at Quaritch, 15 May 1919; Harmsworth copy

STC 11894 copy 2

cs765. A few manuscript notes and manuscript markings. Imperfect: wanting sigs. A7, supplied in photostat from another copy, A8 and O4 (both blanks). Provenance: bought by Folger in 1918 from Harding Catalogue 221:616