Engraved t.p., with architectural border.

Initials; head- and tail-pieces.

Text within rule.

Written by William Camden; translated by Abraham Darcie from the French version of P. de Bellegent.

Books 1-3; book 4 published separately in 1629.

Bks. 2-3 have separate t.p.'s which read: The historie of the most high, mighty, and euer-glorious Empresse, Elizabeth, inuincible Queene of England, Ireland, &c. true defendresse of the faith, of immortall renowne, and neuer-dying fame and memory, or, Annalles of all such remarkable things as happened during her blest raigne ouer all her kingdomes of England and Ireland : as also, such acts as past betwixt her Maiesty and Scotland, France, Spaine, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands : the second [-third] booke / faithfully translated out of the French, and publisht in English, with the Kings leaue and authority, granted his most excellent Maiestie, to Abraham Darcie.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (STC), 4497

BM, v. 60, col. 758