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Record Nr.

UNISA996385371803316

Autore

Burghley William Cecil, Baron, <1520-1598.>

Titolo

Precepts, or, directions for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life, through the whole course thereof: left by William, Lord Burghly, to his sonne, at his death, who was sometimes Lord Treasurer of this kingdome. Also some other precepts and advertiseme[n]ts added, which sometimes was the iewell and delight of the right Honourable Lord and father to his country Francis, Earl of Bedford, deceased. In two bookes [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed [by Thomas Harper] for Thomas Iones, and are to be sold at his shop in the Strand, neare Yorke House, 1637

Descrizione fisica

[16], 62, [4], 63-138, [2] p., plate : port

Soggetti

Conduct of life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

An expanded version of: Certaine precepts.

Printer's name from STC.

In two parts; pagination and register are continuous.

"A glasse wherein those enormities and foule abuses may most evidently bee seen, which are the destruction and overthrow of every Christian common-wealth", a translation of "De duodecim abusionum gradibus", sometimes attributed to St. Augustine and to St. Cyprian, has separate dated title page; reprinted from STC 84.5.

The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.

Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0021