£750
FIRST LLOYD EDITION, folio, pp. 8, 830. Text in double columns. Contemporary vellum, fore-edge extensions, spine lettered direct in ink. Running pale stain to top corner of first quarter of the text block, some other scattered dampmarking. Binding soiled and somewhat marked. Small paper label to foot of spine.
The first edition of Nicholas Lloyd's monumental revision and enlargement of Estienne's 1553 encyclopaedia. '[T]his was the product of twenty years of Lloyd's labour, for which he drew on classical sources, the church fathers, and modern authors on geography and pagan antiquity. He 'made it quite another thing, by adding thereunto, from his great reading, almost as much more matter as there was before, with many corrections, &c.' (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 3.1259)' (ODNB). 'As a fact, Lloyd has so overlaid the original dictionary of Stephanus (Paris, I66[, &c. &c.) that his claim to authorship is not unwarranted' (Madan). This printing was issued with several variant title-pages, including a reissue with a London imprint dated 1671; this variation, including Amsterdam booksellers Hendrik and Dirk Boom below the date and therefore presumably for the export market, is recorded by ESTC in a single copy only, at Smith College Libraries, Massachusetts.
