Ill. are woodcuts, comprising 22 half-page cuts of demons in books 1-2 (7 repeated once and 2 twice: 33 total); 2 half-page and 8 smaller cuts of sacraments, etc., within type-flower borders in book 3; publisher's device on t. p. and dedicatee's coat-of-arms on verso; floriated initials., Imperfect: Quire P (p. 225-240 wanting)., Imprint from colophon: Medolani, apud Bernardinum Lantonum, M. DC. VIII., Includes index., and Signatures: a⁸ A-P⁸ Q⁴(-Q4).
Publisher:
Apud haredes August. Tradati,
Subject (Topic):
Demonology--Early works to 1800., Exorcism--Early works to 1800., Occultism--Early works to 1800., and Wood-engraving, Italian--Specimens--17th century.
Described in Stein, Harold. Studies in Spenser's Complaints. New York, 1934. p. [171]-172, [176]-179., Signatures: A-Z4 (Z4 blank and wanting)., The ruines of time -- The teares of the muses -- Virgils gnat -- Prosopopoia, or, Mother Hubberds tale -- Ruines of Romes / Bellay -- Mviopotmos, or, The fate of the butterflie -- Visions of the worlds vanitie -- The visions of Bellay -- The visions of Petrarch., and The tears of the muses, 1591 ; Prosopopoia, 1591 ; and Mviopotmos, 1590 have special title pages.
Publisher:
Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head,