4to. ff. [4], 39, [1]. Signatures: [A]4 B-L4. Contemporary limp vellum, signature on flyleaf of Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount and 1st Earl Fauconberg. Printer's name from STC; publisher's name from colophon.

Bound with two other works by Leland: Κψκνειον Ασμα: Cygnea cantio Autore Ioanne Lelando antiquario. London, [printed by R. Wolfe], 1545; Εγκωμιον τῆς ἐιρήνησ. Laudatio pacis. Ioanne Lelando Antiquario autore. London, Apud Reynerum Wolfium, 1546.

A warm defence of the authenticity of the Arthurian fables in reply to the strictures of Polydore Vergil: see T. Kendrick, British antiquity, New York, 1970 (orig. 1950) and M. McKisack, Medieval history in the Tudor age. Oxford, 1971. See also W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, & K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2nd ed.), 15440.

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Assertio inclytissimi Arturij Regis Britanniae. Ioanne Lelando Antiquario autore

Assertio inclytissimi Arturij Regis Britanniae. Ioanne Lelando Antiquario autore

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