Female excellency, or, The ladies glory : illustrated in the worthy lives and memorable actions of nine famous women, who have been renowned either for virtue or valour in several ages of the world ... : the whole adorned with poems and the picture of each lady / by R.B.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 178:7.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Biography.

Women.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 177 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Female excellency.

Ladies glory.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Nath. Crouch ..., 1688.

Contents:

(from t.p.) I. Deborah, the prophetess

II. The valiant Judith

III. Queen Esther

IV. The virtuous Susanna

V. The chast Lucretia

VI. Voadicia, Queen of Brittain

VII. Mariamne, wife to King Herod

VIII. Clotilda, Queen of France

IX. Andegona, Princess of Spain.

Notes:

R.B. stands for Richard or Robert Burton, the pseudonym of Nathaniel Crouch.

First ed. Cf. DNB.

"Licensed and entred according to order"

First preliminary page and pages 103--104 mutilated in the filmed copy. From the beginning to page 27 photographed from Harvard University Libraries copy and inserted at the beginning; pages 100--125 photographed from Harvard University Libraries copy and inserted at the end.

Advertisements: p. [1]-[9] at end.

Reproduction of original in British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1965. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 178:7)

Cited in:

Wing C7326

Arber's Term cat. II 216

OCLC:

12259713