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The quintesence of wit : being a corrant comfort of conceites, maximies, and poleticke deuises / selected and gathered together by Francisco Sansouino ; wherin is set foorth sundrye excellent and wise sentences, worthie to be regarded and followed ; translated out of the Italian tung, and put into English for the benefit of all those that please to read and vnderstand the works and worth of a worthy writer.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 1714:2.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Sansovino, Francesco, 1521-1586.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1714:2.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Political ethics.
- Maxims.
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 98, that is, 200 pages, 8 unnumbered pages
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- At London : Printed by Edward Allde, dwelling without Cripple-gate at the signe of the Gilded Cup, 1590.
- Notes:
- Translation of the first book of "Propositioni overo Considerationi in materia di cose di stato ... di M.F. Guicciardini, G.F. Lottini, F. Sansovino," edited by Sansovino--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.
- Translator's dedication signed: Robert Hitchcock.
- Includes index.
- Pages numbered on recto only.
- Signatures: A-Y4 2A-2E4 2F2.
- Errors in paging: p. 49 misnumbered 45, numbers 66 and 81 repeated in the pagination.
- Imperfect: cropped, with print show-through.
- Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1982. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1714:2)
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 21744a
- OCLC:
- 21499503
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