GODWIN, Thomas. Romanae historiae anthologia. An English Exposition of the Romane Antiquities ... For the Vse of Abingdon Schoole. Oxford: Joseph Barnes, 1614. 4° (184 x 140), small woodcut device of Abingdon School on title, a few initials and headpieces (single wormhole in the text, a little worming in the foremargins, foremargins of last few leaves frayed through damp and the last 2 repaired, very light browning). 20th-century red half morocco, original endpapers, from an early 16th-century liturgical book, preserved. FIRST EDITION of Godwin's enormously popular schoolbook describing Roman life, laws, gods, customs, etc. STC 11956.