PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH

The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake


Click on picture for larger image, full item, or more versions.  [Rights and Reproductions]

Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection copy

A trve coppie of a discourse written by a gentleman, employed in the late voyage of Spaine and Portingale. Sent to his particular friend, and by him published, for the better satisfaction of all such, as hauing been seduced by particular report, haue entred into conceipts tending to the discredit of the enterprise, and actors of the same.

Wingfield, Anthony, Captain.

OTHER TITLES
True coppie of a discourse written by a gentleman, employed in the late voyage of Spaine and Portingale

CREATED/PUBLISHED
At London, Printed [by T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcok [sic] ..., 1589.

NOTES
Has been wrongly attributed to Robert Devereux, 2d Earl of Essex.

STC 6790

Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 24

L.C. copy imperfect: p. 27-30 (signatures E2-3) wanting; supplied in facsim.

In some copies E2 is a cancel; the facsim. in L.C. copy is of the cancellandum. The cancellans has additional text relating to the Earl of Essex. Cf. G. W. Cole. The extra gill and the full quart pot, 1919.

SUBJECTS
Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603.
Great Britain--History, Military--1485-1603.

RELATED NAMES
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601.
Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
[4], 58 p. 18 cm.

CALL NUMBER
DA352 1589 .W56

DIGITAL ID
( Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection copy ) rbdk d024 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbdk.d024

PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH