Shelfmark
Gd.7.13
Author
Title
Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; viz. Maxims of state. Advice to his son: his sons advice to his father. His Sceptick. Observations concerning the causes of the magnificency and opulency of cities. Sir Walter Raleigh's Observations touch trade and commerce with the Hollander and other nations, proving that our sea and land commodities inrich and strengthen other countreys against our own. His letters to divers persons of quality. The prerogative of paliaments in England, proved in a dialogue between a councellor of state and a justice of peace.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for Henry Mortlock, at the Phœnix in St. Paul's Churchyard, and at the White Hart in Westminster-Hall., 1675.
Physical description
[12], 396 p. : port. ; 13 cm. (12mo.)
Note
With a frontispiece portrait of the author (A1v).
Note
'Sir Walter Raleigh's instructions to his son', 'Sir Walter Raleigh's observations touching trade and commerce with the Hollander' and 'The prerogative of Parliaments in England' have separate title pages. Pagination and register is continuous.
Note
Includes 'The dutiful advice of a loving son, to his aged father' (E12v-F7v), which has been wrongly attributed to Raleigh. It is rather an excerpt from Robert Southwell's "An epistle of a religious priest unto his father", first printed in: A short rule of a good life.
Note
List of contents on leaves A3 and A4; two leaves of advertisements on leaves A5 and A6.
Citation/references note
ESTC, R27473
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), R184
Citation/references note
Sabin, 67581
Citation/references note
Brushfield, T.N. Bibliography of Sir Walter Raleigh, 219(i)
Provenance
Book label of John Reynolds on front pastedown, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary dark brown sheep; blind tooled double fillet border; blind tooled zigzag tool on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; brown morocco spine label with gold tooled double fillet and title; blue and yellow marbled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fg.7.29.
Subject
Subject
Subject
England and Wales Parliament
Subject
Political science Early works to 1800.
Subject
Conduct of life Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Mortlock, Henry bookseller.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London
Identifier
B10518