Principal rules of the Italian grammer : with a dictionarie for the better vnderstandynge of Boccace, Pethrarcha, and Dante: gathered into this tongue by William Thomas: newly corrected and imprinted, in the yéere of our Lorde God, 1567.

Principal rules of the Italian grammer : with a dictionarie for the better vnderstandynge of Boccace, Pethrarcha, and Dante: gathered into this tongue by William Thomas: newly corrected and imprinted, in the yéere of our Lorde God, 1567.

Londini : In aedibus H. VVykes, [1567]

[360] p. ; (4to)

Signatures: pi² A-H⁴; ²A-2N⁴ 2O².

"A dictionarie, taken out of the two bookes in Italian, called Acharisius and Ricchezze della lingua volgare" (caption title) has separate register.

Colophon reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete by Henry Wykes. Com [sic] priuilegio ad imprimendum solu. Anno. M.D.LXVII.

L copy filmed on UMI "Tract supplement" reel E1 (Harl. 5919[236]): title page only.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 24022
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S118395

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 24022

cs57. Bound in calf; (re-backed). Engraved armorial bookplate signed: Perkins and Heath. Marginal MS. markings and notes, some partially cropped. Title leaf cropped at head, affecting woodcut border. Provenance: anonymous engraved armorial bookplate (motto "honi soit qui mal y pense") of Augustus Frederick, duke of Sussex, with a MS. shelf-mark; 1901 purchase from Pickering & Chatto, London, cat. pt. 9, lot no. 5515