Proverbes, ecclesiastes or preacher. Cantica canticorum [et] Sapienta called [the] boke of wisdom : whereto also is added [the] boke of Jesus [the] son of Sirac, called Ecclesiasticus.

Title quoted from preface.

Signatures: B-Z⁸ ²Z⁸ 2A-2M⁸.

Title page and preliminaries before B1 recto lacking; only known copy.

Publishing information from colophon; year from STC.

Woodcut initials.

STC (2nd ed.), 2757.5

Binding Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand, 2006

Alexander Turnbull Library copy exhibited ; Howard 19 (292520) : Simple to Sumptuous: Bookbindings 1450 to the Present. 5 April - 19 July 2008

Lacks title page and all before B1 recto.

Binding: 16th century calfskin with gilt arabesque panel stamped on front and back boards, spine bands raised, spine stamped with gilt fleurons, cloth ties.

Provenance: inscription on 2M8v: "Margarett Willoughby me possidett. Donum Elizabethe Beaumonte q[ui] obiit apud Coombe ... de Gittesham die veneris 4to die Martii ... 1613 ..."; in the collection of sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, lot 2466 in the sale of his library, 8 July 1946; bequeathed to the Alexander Turnbull Library by Sir Arthur Howard, 1973.

Digital image available: bookbinding, Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. Details available on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing.