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<dl><dd>44 unnumbered pages, 757 pages, 15 unnumbered pages : 32 cm (folio)</dd>
<dd>First word of title ("The") is xylographic</dd>
<dd>"A table of the names of all the beastes contayned in this hystory, in divers languages": 10 pages at end</dd>
<dd>Error in pagination: page 56 mis-numbered 59</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A⁶ [par.]⁶ 2[par.]⁸ *² B-2V⁶ 3A-3X⁶ 3Y⁸</dd>
<dd>The first and last leaf are blank</dd>
<dd>Largely a translation of book 1 of Gesner's Historia animalium, with additions by Topsell</dd>
<dd>Title page varies: with cut of hyena (used for sea wolf on p. 749) or of gorgon (most copies; not illustrated in the text pp. 262-3); examples of both at British Library. B1, 2, 5, 6 in 2 settings; B2r catchword: 'they'; B6r line 1: 'crowne' (Huntington Library) or 'gers' and 'Crowne' (Harvard). In some copies (one of the British Library copies, for example) there is an extra leaf after F4 with heading: 'The Picture of the vulger Bugill Folio 57.' (STC)</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Mammals; Zoology; Abnormalities, Severe Teratoid; Mammals; Monsters; Zoology</div>
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Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?</div>
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