SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius. The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperours of Rome ... newly translated into English by Philemon Holland, London: for Matthew Lownes, 1606, small 2°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, variant issue with Holland's name on letterpress title, woodcut initials, head and tail pieces [STC 23423], bound with -- The Historie of Justine ... whereunto is newly added a briefe collection of the lives and manners of all the emperours, translated by G. W[ilkins], London: by William Jaggard, 1606, 2 parts, small 2°, woodcut title device, illustration, initials and culs de lampe (? lacking one preliminary leaf and final leaf, probably blank, small wormhole from Ff1 onwards), contemporary calf (joints cracked). [STC 24293] Provenance: Tho. Pratt (inscription dated 1657)

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SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Caius. The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperours of Rome ... newly translated into English by Philemon Holland, London: for Matthew Lownes, 1606, small 2°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, variant issue with Holland's name on letterpress title, woodcut initials, head and tail pieces [STC 23423], bound with -- The Historie of Justine ... whereunto is newly added a briefe collection of the lives and manners of all the emperours, translated by G. W[ilkins], London: by William Jaggard, 1606, 2 parts, small 2°, woodcut title device, illustration, initials and culs de lampe (? lacking one preliminary leaf and final leaf, probably blank, small wormhole from Ff1 onwards), contemporary calf (joints cracked). [STC 24293] Provenance: Tho. Pratt (inscription dated 1657)

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