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Record Nr.

UNISA996396210203316

Autore

Peacham Henry <1576?-1643?>

Titolo

The vvorth of a penny, or, A caution to keep money [[electronic resource] ] : VVith the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want thereof, in these hard and merciless times: as also how to save it, in our diet, apparel, recreations, &c. And also what honest courses men in want may take to live. By Henry Peacham Mr. in Arts, sometime of Trinity Colledge Cambridge. Now newly reprinted according to order, and made more publick than heretofore: with some additions of notes in the margin; and the Greek and Latin sentences Englished. Now last of all, are added some grave sentences, with many learned observations, in a different letter from the former: with a catalogue of the Bills of Mortality, from 1642. to 1669. Printed this 12:h of January, 1669

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by S. Griffin, for William Lee, formerly living at the Turks head in Fleet-street : and now dwelling next to the Kings-head Tavern in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-street, 1669 [i.e. 1670]

Descrizione fisica

[4], 35, [1] p. : table

Soggetti

Saving and investment - Great Britain

Mortality - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Year of publication given according to Lady Day dating.

With table "of Diseases and of the Plagues" on verso of last leaf F2.

Reproductions of the original in the British Library (reel 1933:11) and Folger Shakespeare Library (reel 2982:25).

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0216