The auncient historie and onely trewe and syncere cronicle of the warres betwixte the Grecians and the Troyans : and subsequently of the fyrst evercyon of the auncient and famouse cytye of Troye under Lamedon the king, and of the laste and fynall destruction of the same under Pryam

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, Colonne, Guido delle, active 13th century. Historia destructionis Troiae, Braham, Robert, author of introduction, etc, Dictys, Cretensis, Marsh, Thomas, active 1554-1587, printer, Benoit, de Sainte-More, active 12th century. Roman de Troie, McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899, former owner. MB · 1555 · Imprinted at London : In Fletestrete at the sygne of the Princes armes, by Thomas Marshe · 2 pictures

A 1555 London printing by Thomas Marshe of a English prose retelling of the Trojan War, drawing on Guido delle Colonne and Dictys Cretensis and attributed to Lydgate, held by the Boston Public Library. The two pictures are not from the text itself: one is a dense black-and-white ex libris bookplate with a central open book flanked by scrolls and foliage, and the other is a circular library seal with laurel wreath, two classical figures, and an open book. A designer might take the ornate scrolled cartouche and laurel-wreath framing as models for decorative borders and seals.

Troy (Extinct city) -- Romances, legends, etc

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