The lives of saints : gathered out of the reuerend father Peter Ribadeneyra, of the Society of Iesus, D. Alfonsus Villegas, & other authenticall authors. The first six monethes. With an appendix prefixed of the saintes lately canonized, & beatified by Paulus V & Gregory XV. By Edward Kinesman gent.

The lives of saints : gathered out of the reuerend father Peter Ribadeneyra, of the Society of Iesus, D. Alfonsus Villegas, & other authenticall authors. The first six monethes. With an appendix prefixed of the saintes lately canonized, & beatified by Paulus V & Gregory XV. By Edward Kinesman gent.

Flos sanctorum. English

[St. Omer] : [English College Press] Permissu superiorum, M.DC.XXIII [1623]

xxxii, 160, 464, 326, [2], 139, 138-505, [5], 492, 463-665, [3] p. ; (8vo)

Translation of Flos sanctorum--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.

Place of publication and publisher suggested by STC (2nd ed.).

Each title page printed in red and black.

Signatures: *-**⁸ A-K⁸; ²A-2E⁸; ³A-V⁸ X⁴; ⁴chi1 A-V⁸ W-2H⁸; ⁵A-V⁸ W-2V⁸ [2W]².

Volume 2 has separate dated title page, pagination and register.

Leaf ³X4 is blank; leaf ⁵[2W]2 is blank except for rules.

Pts. 2-3 and vol. 2, both pts., are the sheets of the 1615 [edition] without their preliminaries. -- Allison & Rogers.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 24732
Allison & Rogers, 855
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S540

France.

STC 24732

134764. Imperfect: pt. 2 only. MS. markings on the front free endpaper. Burn-holes. Old gilt-tooled calf with a central ornament of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ (with the gilt motto "Sancta Maria ora pro nobis"). Provenance: book-label of Milton, Peterborough (i.e. Fitzwilliam family library copy)