Printed on Vellum
[BOEMUS, Johann. William WATERMAN, trans.]
The Fardle of Facions. London. 1555. In three Volumes … Edinburgh, E. &. G. Goldsmid, 1888.
Three vols, 4to, pp. 68; 72; 99, [1], with a half-title in each volume; half-title and title-page printed in red and black, limitation leaf printed in red; in the publisher’s maroon morocco, very worn, spines dry and chipped, covers detached.
Limited edition, apparently one of two copies printed on vellum, though this copy is unnumbered. The limitation leaf specifies an edition of 97 copies on paper and two on vellum.
The Fardle of Facions conteining the aunciente Maners, Customes, and Lawes, of the Peoples enhabiting the two Partes of the Earth, called Affrike and Asie (1555) was translated from books I and II of Beomus’ ethnographic compendium Omnium gentium mores, leges et ritus (1520).
This edition was printed as volumes III–V of the Goldsmids’ ‘Bookworm’s Garner’. The historian and antiquarian Edmund Goldsmid was responsible for a large output of privately printed reprints of early modern texts under series titles such as ‘Bibliotheca Curiosa’.