Figure 204
Title-page, Contents, and Text-page of one of Elzevir’s Republics, Leyden
From HathiTrust (scan 1, scan 2, scan 3)
1627
How modern in ideas as publishers the Elzevirs were, is shown by their series of travel-books called “The Republics”—little historical and geographical descriptions of European countries by various authors, put together by a judicious use of scissors and paste-pot. The…Respublica, sive Status Regni Scotiæ et Hiberniæ…