Howell (James). Londinopolis: An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain: whereunto is added another of the City of Westminster, with the Courts of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging, 1st edition, London: Printed by J. Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring and John Place, 1657, etched portrait frontispiece by Abraham Bosse after Claude Melan (5th state, with added coat of arms), title printed in red and black, double-page etched panorama of London by Wenceslaus Hollar, near-contemporary ownership inscription in brown ink to head of dedication leaf 'Henry Bishop November ye 20th 1682', and similar marginal annotations to the 'Parallel of London with other great Cities of the World', erratic pagination and signatures, some browning, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, early 20th-century brown half calf gilt (endpapers renewed), lightly rubbed with minor fading to upper portion of upper cover, folio (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Probably Henry Bishopp (1605–1691), also spelt Bishop and Bisshopp, of Henfield, West Sussex, Postmaster General of England and inventor of the first postmark used on mail (inscription); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). ESTC R13420; Grolier, Wither to Prior, 487; Pforzheimer 515; Wing H3091. James Howell (c. 1594-1666), historian and writer, gained a secretaryship of the Privy Council on the eve of the English Civil War (according to one eminent critic 'very close to the type of appointment that he had sought for 20 years'), though due to the change in political circumstances he never took up the position. Instead he became the first writer to earn his living solely from writing in the English language. He was the first English writer of an epistolary novel (Familiar Letters). His Lexicon Tetragloton was a dictionary not in four languages, but in six; a dictionary of Latin vernacular (Romance language) proverbs. His New English Grammar is also considered the first work of foreign language teaching in English.
Howell (James). Londinopolis: An Historicall Discourse or Perlustration of the City of London, the Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain: whereunto is added another of the City of Westminster, with the Courts of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging, 1st edition, London: Printed by J. Streater, for Henry Twiford, George Sawbridge, Thomas Dring and John Place, 1657, etched portrait frontispiece by Abraham Bosse after Claude Melan (5th state, with added coat of arms), title printed in red and black, double-page etched panorama of London by Wenceslaus Hollar, near-contemporary ownership inscription in brown ink to head of dedication leaf 'Henry Bishop November ye 20th 1682', and similar marginal annotations to the 'Parallel of London with other great Cities of the World', erratic pagination and signatures, some browning, burgundy morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, early 20th-century brown half calf gilt (endpapers renewed), lightly rubbed with minor fading to upper portion of upper cover, folio (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Probably Henry Bishopp (1605–1691), also spelt Bishop and Bisshopp, of Henfield, West Sussex, Postmaster General of England and inventor of the first postmark used on mail (inscription); W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). ESTC R13420; Grolier, Wither to Prior, 487; Pforzheimer 515; Wing H3091. James Howell (c. 1594-1666), historian and writer, gained a secretaryship of the Privy Council on the eve of the English Civil War (according to one eminent critic 'very close to the type of appointment that he had sought for 20 years'), though due to the change in political circumstances he never took up the position. Instead he became the first writer to earn his living solely from writing in the English language. He was the first English writer of an epistolary novel (Familiar Letters). His Lexicon Tetragloton was a dictionary not in four languages, but in six; a dictionary of Latin vernacular (Romance language) proverbs. His New English Grammar is also considered the first work of foreign language teaching in English.
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