The rare and most vvonderfull things which Edvvard VVebbe an Englishman borne, hath seene and passed in his troublesome trauailes, in the cities of Ierusalem, Damasko, Bethlem and Galely: and in the lands of Iewrie, Egypt, Grecia, Russia, and Prester Iohn. : VVherein is set forth his extreame slauerie sustained many yeares together in the gallies and vvarres of the great Turke, against the lands of Persia, Tartaria, Spaine, and Portugale, vvith the manner of his releasement and comming into England in May last.

The rare and most vvonderfull things which Edvvard VVebbe an Englishman borne, hath seene and passed in his troublesome trauailes, in the cities of Ierusalem, Damasko, Bethlem and Galely: and in the lands of Iewrie, Egypt, Grecia, Russia, and Prester Iohn. : VVherein is set forth his extreame slauerie sustained many yeares together in the gallies and vvarres of the great Turke, against the lands of Persia, Tartaria, Spaine, and Portugale, vvith the manner of his releasement and comming into England in May last.

Rare and most wonderfull things which Edward Webbe hath seene and passed

London : Printed by A. I[effes] for VVilliam Barley, dvvelling in Gratious streete neere leaden hall, [1592?]

[32] p. : ill., coat of arms (woodcuts) ; (4to)

Printer's name and conjectured publication date from STC.

Running title reads: VVebbe his trauailes.

First leaf bears woodcut illustration on verso.

B1r catchword: "the".

Signatures: A-D⁴.

Some of the cuts (e.g. wild man) are from the same blocks as 25151.5 sqq. and are more worn. -- STC.

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), 25153
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S104823

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 25153

HH2215/7. MS. notes (mottoes) in Welsh. MS. price. Some edges are untrimmed. In the imprint, there is possibly a hyphen between "leaden" and "hall". A3 stained, affecting headpiece. Final leaf damaged, affecting headline. Binding signed by Bramhill & Menzies. Provenance: inscribed on A1r: "Jo: [John?] Jones" and on t.p.: "Jones tenet pretium 2d" (also inscribed: "heb dduw heb thim duw a digon" ["Without God, without anything, God is enough": motto of Jones of Ystrad]; also inscribed on A1r and on t.p.: "Na werth nef ir [er] benthig byd [bydd]"); Sotheby's sale, July 20, 1927, lot 201; collated at Quaritch by E.M. Dring; Harmsworth copy