A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England 1558‐1603

I suspect that neither bibliographical catalogues nor Anglo‐Italian translations in the Tudor period are high on most people's agenda but having browsed through this 600‐page heavyweight from the enterprising and omniscient publishers Ashgate, both are a lot higher on mine. Granted that A Bibliographical Catalogue of Italian Books Printed in England 1558‐1603 is no bodice‐ripper, this work, containing detailed bibliographical descriptions of 291 Italian books published in England before 1603 with “quasi‐facsimile” transcriptions of title‐pages (“following Gaskell's principles of reproduction”); descriptions of their physical structures presenting a cryptographer's heaven; and a plethora of analytical tabulations, clearly needs serious attention. Yet...