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Record Nr.

UNISA996390038703316

Titolo

A myrrour for magistrates [[electronic resource] ] : wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, with howe greuous plagues, vyces are punished in great princes and magistrates, and how frayle and vnstable worldly prosperity is founde, where fortune seemeth moste highly to fauour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : By Thomas Marshe dwellynge in Fleetstreete, neare vnto S. Du[n]stanes Churche, [1571]

Edizione

[Newly corrected and augmented. Anno 1571.]

Descrizione fisica

[6], 128, 139-168 leaves

Altri autori (Persone)

BaldwinWilliam <ca. 1518-1563?>

BoccaccioGiovanni <1313-1375.>

Soggetti

Political ethics

Great Britain History Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

By William Baldwin and others.

In verse.

A continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum".

The first two parts of "A mirror for magistrates" were written by John Higgins and Thomas Blenerhasset respectively; this third part was in fact written before the others.

Leaves 139 and 140 misfoliated 140 and 141; numerous other errors in foliation.

The outer leaf of gathering D is in two settings: leaf D1r has in running title (1) "Folio. 19." or (2) "Fol. 19".

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113