Aristotles Politiques, or, Discourses of gouernment

Aristotles Politiques, or, Discourses of gouernment

Full title: Aristotles Politiques, or, Discourses of gouernment / translated out of Greeke into French, with expositions taken out of the best authours, specially out of Aristotle himselfe, and out of Plato, conferred together where occasion of matter treated of by them both doth offer it selfe: the obseruations and reasons whereof are illustrated and confirmed by innumerable examples, both old and new, gathered out of the most renowmed empires, kingdomes, seignories, and Commonweals that euer haue bene, and wherof the knowledge could be had in writing, or by faythfull report, concerning the beginning, proceeding, and excellencie of ciuile gouernment : by Loys Le Roy, called Regius ; translated out of French into English..

Aristotle

At London : Printed by Adam Islip, Anno Dom.

1598

[32], 393, [7] pages ; 29 cm (fol.)

Translator's dedication signed: I.D., i.e. John Dickenson.

Dedication to Henry III dated July 1596.

Printer's device on title page.

Initials; head- and tail- pieces.

First and last leaves blank.

Pages 70-71 misnumbered as 80-81, page 284 misnumbered as 84, page 349 misnumbered as 439, page 378 misnumbered as 376.

QUL copy lacks first and last blank leaves
Ex libris: The Ansonia Library, 1896
The gift of Seymour Schulich, Dec. 2015

Dickenson, John, approximately 1570-1635 or 1636, translator.
Leroy, Louis, -1577, translator.
Islip, Adam, -1639, printer.
Schulich, Seymour, former owner.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

English

Dated 1598 .A7 folio
STC (2nd ed.), 760
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 10
ESTC, S106844