BEIN Lbf48 L3 570a: Imperfect: Last [1] at end wanting, colophon has been trimmed and mounted on flyleaf. Booksellers label: The Brick Row Print and Book Shop, New Haven, Conn., Signatures: [pointing hand]² B-T⁴., The editor's dedicatory epistle signed: Margaret Ascham., and With a final colophon leaf.
Publisher:
Printed by Iohn Daye ...,
Subject (Name):
Ascham, Margaret, ed. and Day, John, 1522-1584, printer.
Subject (Topic):
Education--Early works to 1800. and Latin language--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, consisting of aphorisms, axioms, and pithy commentary on such subjects as "Wisdom, "Money," "Retalliation," and "Parliament." Prefaced by a dedication to Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale, Edward Heywood, John Vaughan, and Rowland Jenkes, signed by Selden's secretary Richard Milward, who "had the opportunity to hear his discourse twenty years together."
Description:
9 preliminary leaves, front and back, some lined but otherwise blank, not digitized., Armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale., Binding: contemporary full leather., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Includes alphabetized table of contents.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs
Subject (Name):
Hale, Matthew,--Sir,--1609-1676, Lowther, Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale--Bookplate, Milward, Ri.--(Richard),--1609-1680, and Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk
Subject (Topic):
Aphorisms and apothegms--17th century, Conduct of life--17th century, and Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc