ELYOT, Sir Thomas (1490?-1546), translator. The doctrinal of princes made by the noble oratour Isocrates, translated out of Greke in to Englishe by syr Thomas Eliot knight . London: Thomas Berthelet [c. 1550]. Small 8° (132 x 90mm). Collation: A-B 8 C 4 . Woodcut titleborder [McKerrow & Ferguson 30, dated 1534]. 19th-century brown straight-grained morocco gilt, by Bedford, edges gilt. Provenance : Cardiff Castle bookplate. The second edition. A translation of Isocrates Ad Nicoclem , previously published in 1533, apparently to supplement Elyot's famous treatise, The boke named the Governour . It is in an identical format, with the same titleborder. STC 14279 (records 7 copies, including the present). Of the first edition only 4 copies are known.
ELYOT, Sir Thomas (1490?-1546), translator. The doctrinal of princes made by the noble oratour Isocrates, translated out of Greke in to Englishe by syr Thomas Eliot knight . London: Thomas Berthelet [c. 1550]. Small 8° (132 x 90mm). Collation: A-B 8 C 4 . Woodcut titleborder [McKerrow & Ferguson 30, dated 1534]. 19th-century brown straight-grained morocco gilt, by Bedford, edges gilt. Provenance : Cardiff Castle bookplate. The second edition. A translation of Isocrates Ad Nicoclem , previously published in 1533, apparently to supplement Elyot's famous treatise, The boke named the Governour . It is in an identical format, with the same titleborder. STC 14279 (records 7 copies, including the present). Of the first edition only 4 copies are known.
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