Shelfmark
Gi.7.02
Author
Title
The compleat gentleman. Fashioning him absolut, in the most necessary and commendable qualities concerning minde or body, that may be required in a noble gentleman. Whereunto is annexed a description of the order of a maine battaile or pitched field, eight severall wayes: with the art of limming and other additions newly enlarged. By Henry Peacham Master of Arts: sometime of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge..
Edition
[The second impression much inlarged]
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed [by John Legat] for Francis Constable, and are to bee sold at his shoppe in Pauls Church yard, at the signe of the Crane., 1634..
Physical description
[14], 153, [6], 154-255, [1]; [8], 163, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts), coats of arms ; 19 cm. (4to)
Note
With an additional title page, engraved, which bears the edition statement. It is signed "Fr. Delaram. sculp. Anno 1626".
Note
Printer's name from STC.
Note
Includes "The gentlemans exercise" with separate dated title page, pagination, and register, also published separately as STC 19509. It is an edition of: Graphice.
Note
Leaf ¹X3 is cancelled by four leaves, signed X3, X4, X5, and [X6]. Variant: with cancellandum ¹X3.
Note
There are two forms of the headpiece on ¹B3r.
Note
Signatures: pi² (-pi2) A-V⁴ X⁴(-X3 ±'X3','X4','X5', ['X6']) Y-2K⁴ 2L²; A-X⁴ Y².
Note
Head- and tail-pieces, initials; printed marginalia.
Note
Imprint of part 2 in two states: imprint begins 1) "London, printed for Iohn Marriott, ...", or 2) "London, Printed for I.M. ...".
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 19504
Citation/references note
ESTC, S114316
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ms. notes on front pastedown and front flyleaf, unidentified hands: "William Smith His Booke Rowington Warwickshire ano domino one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven"; "hic nomen ?dono qui a librum [...] debere Nolo quis [...] solducet [...] debet".
Provenance
Ms. note on rear flyleaf: "Mr Hoodson Hood Malster Auster Street Birmingham".
Binding
?17th-century speckled calfskin over pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border. Spine with four raised bands, decorated with blind fillets and modern gilt titling over red label ("The compleat gentleman 1634."). Textblock trimmed and dyed red. Endpapers of undecorated laid paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Version presenting "London, Printed for I.M. ..." on second title page.
Copy-specific note
ECL former shelfmark: DDk.3.6.
Subject
Education Early works to 1800.
Subject
Courtesy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Heraldry Early works to 1800.
Subject
Drawing 17th century.
Added entry--name
Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 1590 - 1627 engraver.
Added entry--name
Constable, Francis, ? - d. 1647 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Legate, John, ? - -1658 printer.
Added entry--name
Marriott, John, active 1616 - 1657 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51249