The image of gouernance / compiled of the actes and sentences notable, of the moste noble Emperour Alexander Seuerus ; late translated out of Greke into Englyshe, by Syr Thomas Eliot knight, in the fauour of nobilitie.
1544
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Title
The image of gouernance / compiled of the actes and sentences notable, of the moste noble Emperour Alexander Seuerus ; late translated out of Greke into Englyshe, by Syr Thomas Eliot knight, in the fauour of nobilitie.
Created/published
Londini : In officina Thomae Bertheleti typis impress, anno MDXLIIII [1544]
Description
[8], 104 leaves ; (4to)
Associated name
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546, author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Based on (work): Lampridius, Aelius. Historiae Augustae scriptores.
Eucolpius.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Based on (work): Lampridius, Aelius. Historiae Augustae scriptores.
Eucolpius.
Note
Based, according to the preface, on a Greek manuscript by Eucolpius, secretary to Severus Alexander, with the addition of extracts from other Latin and Greek authors; in fact based very freely on sections of: Lampridius, A. Historiae Augustae scriptores.
Printer's name and place from colophon.
Signatures: a-b⁴ A-2C⁴.
Printer's name and place from colophon.
Signatures: a-b⁴ A-2C⁴.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 7665
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100505
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100505
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Bindings images and description for Folger Shakespeare Library STC 7665 copy 1
Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library STC 7665 copy 1: "A red proof sheet used as printers waste", The Collation (06 May 2020)
Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library STC 7665 copy 1: "A red proof sheet used as printers waste", The Collation (06 May 2020)
Genre/form
Annotations.
Printed waste.
Printed waste.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 7665 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH80/29. Brown calf binding, ruled and tooled in blind, with anonymous arms on covers; proof sheet of red printed prayers used as endpapers both front and back. Manuscript notation on front free endpaper. Provenance: inscription on t.p.: "Edward Neel boke"; Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 7665 copy 2
Folger-specific note
ac6424. Imperfect: wanting leaf a1 (title page), supplied in facsimile. Blue goatskin binding, ruled in gilt and signed by Riviere & Son. Provenance: Sotheby sale, 15 November 1937:56