Huth copy.- Lydgate (John) The Life and Death of Hector, title within woodcut border incorporating female embodiments of wisdom and science, shields for each of the four continents, the royal arms of James I and a scholar at his desk, with final blank but lacking initial blank, title 3mm. short at head (?supplied), G3 small hole affecting few letters, few neat and subtle marginal repairs, some light marginal creases possibly pressed, the odd spot or minor surface soiling, else very good, handsomely bound in full crushed brown morocco by Bedford, gilt, covers with gilt panels with acorn device to corners, few light and small marks to lower cover, some very light rubbing to joints and corners, g.e., [STC 5581.5], small folio, Thomas Purfoot, 1614.

⁂ First edition under this title. A modernised verse paraphrase of the 'Troy Book' of John Lydgate, which was in turn a very much amplified version of the prose 'Latin Historia Destructionis Troiae' of Guido delle Colonne, in turn a condensed version of the 'Roman de Troie' of Benoît de Sainte More.

Provenance: "Ex Musaeo Huthii" (gilt morocco book-label); Kalbfleisch collection (gilt book-label); Kenneth Rapoport (book-label).