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Here begynneth a goodly treatyse, and it is called, A notable lesson, otherwyse it is called The golden pystle.

Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 1762:25.
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Format:
Microformat
Author/Creator:
Whitford, Richard, active 1495-1555?
Contributor:
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Series:
Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1762:25.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
Conduct of life.
Physical Description:
8 unnumbered pages
35 mm
monochrome
service copy
positive
Other Title:
Notable lesson.
Golden pystle.
Place of Publication:
[London] : Impry[n]ted by me Wynkyn de Worde, dwellynge in London, in Flete strete, at the sygne of the Sonne, the xxiii daye of Noue[m]ber, in [the] yere of our Lorde God, M.CCCCC. and xxx. [23 Nov. 1530]
Notes:
"This was brought vnto me in Englysshe of an olde translacyon rugh, and rude, and requyred to amende it. I thought lesse labour to wryte newe the whole ..." signed: Rycharde Whytforde--P. [7].
An adaptation, by Richard Whitford, of Bernard's Epistola de perfectione vitae--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.
Imprint taken from colophon.
Signatures: A4.
T.p. contains woodcut illustration.
Reproduction of original in the Exeter College (University of Oxford). Library.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1983. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1762:25)
Cited in:
STC (2nd ed.) 1912
OCLC:
22152650

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