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"This lytell treatyse compendiously declareth the damage and destruction in realmes caused by the serpente of diuision."
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Attributed to Lydgate by STC (2nd ed.).
"Thus endeth this lytell treatyse entytuled the Damage and destruction in realmes"--Colophon.
Publisher statement taken from colophon; date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.).
Signatures: A-B8 C6.
T.p. contains illustration.
[44] p.
[London]: Newly and of late imprinted by me Roberte Redman, dwellynge at London in Flete Strete at the sygne of the George, [ca. 1535]
STC (2nd ed.) / 17027.5
English
Reproduction of the original in the Exeter College (University of Oxford) Library
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