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Lot 113
JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS The famous and memorable vvorkes of Iosephus, a man of much honour and learning among the Iewes. Faithfully translated out of the Latin, and French, by Tho. Lodge Doctor in Physicke...
[London]: printed [by Peter Short] at the charges of G. Bishop, S. Waterson, P. Short, and Tho. Adams, 1602. The first edition in English. Full panelled calf (of the period or a little later), edges sprinkled red. 12 3/8 x 8 inches (31.5 x 21); [12], 554, [2], 555-562, [2], 563-812, [28] pp., collating [par.]^(6) A-V^(6), 2A-2V^(6), 3A-3F^(6) 3G^(6)(3G1+chi1, 3G5 +chi 2) 3H-3V^(6), 4A-4H^(6) 4I-4L^(4); H2 missigned G2, O3 missigned G3; title partially xylographic. Binding worn and restored, rebacked retaining original spine (but again weakening to front joint); some very minor worming to the extreme gutter margin of the first few signatures, and two small pinholes from worming to the outer margin of signatures D-M, minutely affecting a few marginal glosses, some minor staining or toning (the title a little dust-soiled), occasional finger-soiling etc., two small rustholes each affecting a single letter, in all a sound copy with decent margins. The blank verso of the final leaf bears a small and exceedingly discreet ex libris "Marlborough. Dieu Defend en Droit"; the arms are those of George Spencer-Churchill, the fifth Duke of Marlborough, as used by him before 1817. The location and form of the plate are most unusual.
Thomas Lodge had previously published prose fictions (e.g. Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie, 1590, a Shakespearian source-book, being perhaps the best known), and poetry (A Fig for Momus, 1596 and others). In 1598 he took his degree in medicine at the University of Avignon, which was recognized by Oxford in the year of publication of the present work. This appears to have been the copy of the fifth Duke of Marlborough, a noted book collector.
C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library
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