Nero Caesar, or Monarchie depraued· : an historical worke· dedicated to the D of Buckingham L Admirall. Whereunto beside otherthings [sic], is now newly added the authors priuat account, to k· Iames, concerning ye same, together with a parallel of places in Polybius & Florus. openning ye way of best profit in historie, to Mr. Endymion Porter heretofore, and now to all. By the translatour of L· Florus.

Nero Caesar, or Monarchie depraued· : an historical worke· dedicated to the D of Buckingham L Admirall. Whereunto beside otherthings [sic], is now newly added the authors priuat account, to k· Iames, concerning ye same, together with a parallel of places in Polybius & Florus. openning ye way of best profit in historie, to Mr. Endymion Porter heretofore, and now to all. By the translatour of L· Florus.

London : [printed by Thomas Snodham and Bernard Alsop], M DCXXVII [1627]

[24], 288, 16 p. : ill. (copper-plate engravings) ; (fol.)

The translator of Lucius Florus = Edmund Bolton. The dedication is signed: Philonactophil.

The title page is engraved and signed "Fr: Delaram sculptor". The roman numeral date is made with turned C's.

Printers' names from STC 3221; "Alsop pr[inted]. B-M, Snodham the rest".

"An historical parallel" (caption title) begins new pagination; register is continuous.

A reissue, with new preliminaries (printed by Augustine Mathewes), added quires 2P-2Q, and engraved title page altered, of the 1624 edition. Some copies have the original 1624 letterpress title page remaining.

Variant 1: title page in another state, with "work" in line 6 and lacking most of the punctuation. Variant 2: lacking the engraved medallions on p. 1, 64, et al.

Signatures: pi1 A⁴, ²A⁶ chi1 B-2Q⁴.

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), 3222
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S107107

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 3222

3/15/40. Variant 2. Gathering S misfolded