FAKE OF A GENUINE CORANTO. AMERICAN CONTENT.

The Second Part of Vox Populi, or Gondomar appearing in the likeness of Matchiauell in a Spanish Parliament, wherein are discovered his treacherous & subtitle Practices To the ruine as well of England as the Netherlandes Fithfully Translated out of the Spanish Coppie by a well-willer to England and Holland.

Publishing location:	Printed at Goricom (ie London) by Ashuerus Ianss (ie William Jones)
Publishing date:	1624

Second edition (First fake edition)., 4to., fine full page engraved title page (but with imprint excised), two fine text engravings, (8), 60pp., without final blank leaf, but with the initial blank leaf, disbound.

A very fine and at the time convincing fake of a genuine cornato, the earliest form of a newspaper in England . These by Thomas Scott which gave supposed news from Spain were a complete fabrication and this and its prdecessor were suppressed by Royal authority. This fake has an illustration of a litter being pulled by Donkeys beside the main figure in the title engraving with text "Simul Complectar omnia", and with page D3verso commencing "of Buckinghams". There is mention of the Americas in the text.STC 22104. Sabin 78377

£450.00