Aphorismes ciuill and militarie : amplified with authorities and exemplified with historie out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dallington, Robert, 1561-1637.

Contributor:

Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540.

Field, Richard, -1624, printer.

Blount, Edward, active 1588-1632, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aphorisms and apothegms--Early works to 1800.

Aphorisms and apothegms.

History.

Italy--History--Early works to 1800.

Italy.

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Popes--Temporal power.

Popes.

Norris, Charles (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy).

Local Subjects:

Norris, Charles (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy).

Penn Provenance:

Motherwell, William (autograph)

Smith, Alexander (autograph, 1903)

Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912 (honoree)

Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (bookplate) (donor) (inscription)

Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Norris, Isaac, 1802-1890 (autograph) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Norris, Joseph P. (Joseph Parker), 1763-1841 (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Elsynge, Thomas (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Elsynge, Margaret (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 339 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 61 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 29 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Aphorismes civill and militarie

Fingerprint:

stt. n-of dys. vple (3) 1613 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Imprinted [by R. Field] for Edward Blount, 1613.

Notes:

"A briefe inference vpon Guicciardines digression, in the fourth part of the first quarterne of his Historie" has special dated title page and separate pagination; signatures are continuous.

"To the reader" signed: R. Dallington.

Printer's name from STC.

Signatures: A-2T⁴ 2V⁶ 2X-3E⁴.

The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.

Woodcuts: title vignettes (printer's device, McK. no. 222), initials and head-pieces.

First word of title is xylographic.

Text and printed marginalia within ruled borders.

Errata on leaf 2V6r.

Identified as Early English books, 1475-1640; 880:06 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: last leaf (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy has 2 ms. leaves of bibliographical notes tipped in at beginning of book; early ms. notes in ink on front free endpaper and back pastedown; a few marginal ms. marks in ink.

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full calf with blind-stamped border; title stamped in gold on a red label on spine; six raised bands on spine.

Culture Class Collection copy has ownership inscription: "Jos[eph] Parker Norris 1792" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Isaac Norris Junior (1802-1890) on front pastedown and his autograph on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription with a definition of an aphorism "A short sentence briefly expressing y.a properties" above title.

Culture Class Collection copy has engraved portrait of Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 ("The highe and mighty Charles, Prince of Great Britanny etc., aetatis suae 13") pasted on verso of title leaf.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscriptions: "Thomas Elsynge is my name" and "Margaret Elsynge ..." on p. 249.

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: boards detached and spine mutilated at the upper margin; some leaves dampstained and disbound.

Culture Class Collection copy has a few ms. notes throughout, including a bibliographical inscription on p. [340].

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 6197

ESTC S109203

Related Work:

Guicciardini, Francesco, 1483-1540. Historia d'Italia.

Contains:

A briefe inference upon Guicciardines digression, in the fourth part of the first quarterne of his Historie.

OCLC:

228714396