![[BIDDULPH, William]. The Travels of Foure English Men and a Preacher into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythnia, Thracia... Begunne in the yeere of iubile, 1600. and by some of them finished the yeere 1611. the others not yet returned. Edited by Theophilus Lavender. London: Felix Kyngston for William Apsley, 1612.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1995/CKS/1995_CKS_05424_0142_000(103226).jpg?w=1)
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[BIDDULPH, William]. The Travels of Foure English Men and a Preacher into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythnia, Thracia... Begunne in the yeere of iubile, 1600. and by some of them finished the yeere 1611. the others not yet returned. Edited by Theophilus Lavender. London: Felix Kyngston for William Apsley, 1612.
4° (175 x 120mm). Collation: A-R4 S2 (-A1). Largely black letter. (Lacks A1; A3, S1 and 2 shaved with loss to catchwords and signatures.) Early-19th-century calf, the covers tooled in blind, with large central armorial block (a chevron between three rampant lions), spine gilt (neat repair to upper third of spine). Provenance: Unidentified armorial (binding); Ormsby-Gore, Shropshire (Porkington Library label).
Second edition. In the first edition of 1609 A1 bears the printed exhortation "Good Reader read the Preface, or else reade nothing", surrounded by typographic ornaments. "Biddulph was chaplain to the Levant Company at Aleppo in 1600, having set out for Constantinople in 1599. He travelled extensively in the Levant with four companions. This work was edited from the letters Biddulph sent home by a certain Theophilus Lavender, who describes his attempts to get hold of the other letters after he had seen the first. Out of 20 letters he has edited the material into four. The first describes Biddulph's journey from England to Constantinople; the second is also dated from Constantinople, the third from Aleppo and the fourth from Jerusalem": Cf. Blackmer 140 (the first edition); STC 3052.
4° (175 x 120mm). Collation: A-R4 S2 (-A1). Largely black letter. (Lacks A1; A3, S1 and 2 shaved with loss to catchwords and signatures.) Early-19th-century calf, the covers tooled in blind, with large central armorial block (a chevron between three rampant lions), spine gilt (neat repair to upper third of spine). Provenance: Unidentified armorial (binding); Ormsby-Gore, Shropshire (Porkington Library label).
Second edition. In the first edition of 1609 A1 bears the printed exhortation "Good Reader read the Preface, or else reade nothing", surrounded by typographic ornaments. "Biddulph was chaplain to the Levant Company at Aleppo in 1600, having set out for Constantinople in 1599. He travelled extensively in the Levant with four companions. This work was edited from the letters Biddulph sent home by a certain Theophilus Lavender, who describes his attempts to get hold of the other letters after he had seen the first. Out of 20 letters he has edited the material into four. The first describes Biddulph's journey from England to Constantinople; the second is also dated from Constantinople, the third from Aleppo and the fourth from Jerusalem": Cf. Blackmer 140 (the first edition); STC 3052.