The orator : handling a hundred seuerall discourses, in forme of declamations: some of the arguments being drawne from Titus Liuius and other ancient vvriters, the rest of the authors owne inuention: part of which are of matters happened in our age. Written in French by Alexander Siluayn, and Englished by L.P.
1596
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The orator : handling a hundred seuerall discourses, in forme of declamations: some of the arguments being drawne from Titus Liuius and other ancient vvriters, the rest of the authors owne inuention: part of which are of matters happened in our age. Written in French by Alexander Siluayn, and Englished by L.P.
Uniform title
Epitomes des cent histoires tragicques. English
Created/published
London : Printed by Adam Islip, 1596.
Description
[8], 176, 175-245, 244-436 p. ; (4to)
Associated name
Le Sylvain, approximately 1535-approximately 1585, author.
Pyott, Lazarus.
Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, attributed name.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.
Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library, former owner.
Pyott, Lazarus.
Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, attributed name.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, former owner.
Warwick Castle (Warwick, England). Shakespeare Library, former owner.
Note
A translation, by Lazarus Pyott, of: Epitomes des cent histoires tragicques.
The translation sometimes attributed to Anthony Munday.
Caption title reads: The mirrour of eloquence.
Signatures: A⁴ B-2E⁸ 2F⁴.
The first leaf is blank.
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E4 has title page only.
Stationers' register: Entered 15 July [1596]
The translation sometimes attributed to Anthony Munday.
Caption title reads: The mirrour of eloquence.
Signatures: A⁴ B-2E⁸ 2F⁴.
The first leaf is blank.
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E4 has title page only.
Stationers' register: Entered 15 July [1596]
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), 4182
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 120
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106976
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 120
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S106976
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 4182 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs452. Lacking blank. Provenance: J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps copy (with his initials)
Call number
STC 4182 copy 2
Folger-specific note
Warwick. Mottled calf binding. Lacking blank. A4 misbound before A3. T.p. and some other leaves mended. Provenance: bookplate of Warwick Castle library; Russell Smith copy; signature of Henry Mellor (with purchase (?) price); J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps copy (with his initials and bibliographical note)