Instructions for youth, gentlemen and noblemen / by Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord treasurer Burleigh, Cardinal Sermonetta, and Mr. Walsingham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cajetan, Tommaso de Vio, 1469-1534.

Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.

Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.

Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1532-1590.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life.

Etiquette.

Penn Provenance:

Smith, William (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

328, that is, 326 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

om'd veve atty lofo (3) 1722 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Randal Minshull ..., 1722.

Contents:

Instructions to his son, and to posterity, by Sir Walter Raleigh.

Advice to his son, by Lord Treasurer Burleigh.

Instructions to his cousin Petro Caetano, as his first going into Flanders to the Duke of Parma, to serve Philip, King of Spain, by Cardinal Sermonetta.

Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims, for statesman and courtiers.

Notes:

Signatures: A-O¹².

Title in double-ruled border.

Errata on final leaf.

Error in pagination: page numbers 313 and 314 missing in numeration; text is continuous.

Error in pagination: p.198-199 and 255 misnumbered as 196-197 and 245, respectively.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has inscription on title page that reads "Wm. Smith."

Cited in:

ESTC, T37307

OCLC:

5092712