A chronicle, conteyning the liues of tenne emperours of Rome

A chronicle, conteyning the liues of tenne emperours of Rome

Full title: A chronicle, conteyning the liues of tenne emperours of Rome : wherin are discouered, their beginnings, proceedings, and endings, worthie to be read, marked, and remembered. Wherein are also conteyned lawes of specialle profile and policie, sentences of singular shortnesse and sweetenesse, orations of great grauitie and wisedome, letters of rare learning and eloquence, examples of vices carefully to be auoyded, and notable paternes of vertue fruitfull to be followed

Other title: Gueuara's chronicle

Guevara, Antonio de, -1545?

Hellowes, Edward, active 1574-1600, translator.

Imprinted at London : by Henry Middleton for Ralphe Newberrie dwelling in Fleetestrete

Anno gratiæ 1577

[8], 484, [10] p. ; 20 cm (4⁰).

A translation of: Una década de los diez Cesares y emperadores Romanos.

Colophon reads: Imprinted at London for Ralphe Newberrie, dwelling in Fleetestreate a little aboue the conduite.

Printer's name from STC.

Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-X⁸ 2A-2I⁸ 2K⁸(-2K8).

Binding: mottled calf.

Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund.

Armorial bookplate: "The Hon.ble George Baillie, Esq one of the Lords of the Treasury, 1724" on front pastedown endpaper.

Inscription and notes of Brent Gration-Maxfield on fly leaves (partly erased).

English

Dated 1577 .G84

English Short Title Catalogue, S103534

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