Lydgate, John (1370-1451)
The Life and Death of Hector.

London: Thomas Purfoot, 1614.

First edition under this title, small folio, large decorative title page woodcut compartment with 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; bound in full crushed brown morocco by Bedford, ruled and tooled in elegant compartments on boards and spine, in good condition; the Huth copy, with morocco gilt-tooled ownership label; ex libris Kalbfleisch collection, with gilt-tooled label; 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.

The present work is "A modernized 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." (cf. "Lydgate's Troy Book," Early English Text Society, extra series 97, p. ix.)

STC 5581.5; ESTC S119764.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.