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Creator
Date
1909
Location
Oxford,
England
Great Britain
Great Britain
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xxxiv p., 1 leaf, reprint (8 p. leaves, 232 p.) [233]-236 p.
Language
English
Size
20 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 55024
Folger call number: PN173 .W5 1909
Folger holdings ID: 56441
Folger call number: PN173 .W5 1909
Folger holdings ID: 56441
Notes
General notes
"A reprint of the edition of 1585 ... collated with the edition of 1567, and with that of 1560 (which is the editio princeps)." Original title, within illustrated border: The Art of Rhetorique, for vse of all such as are studious of Eloquence, set forth in English, by Thomas Wilson 1553. And now newly set forth againe, with a Prologue to the Reader, 1567. Imprinted at London, by George Robinson, 1585 Among the examples given are: An example of commending a noble personage [two noble gentlemen, Henry duke of Suffolke, and his brother Lord Charles]: p. 14-17; An epistle to perswade a yong gentlemen to mariage, deuised by Erasmus: p. 39-63; An example of comfort [addressed to the duchess of Suffolk on the death of her sons]: p. 66-85
Also known as
Extended title: Wilson's Arte of rhetorique, 1560 / ed. by G. H. Mair
Subjects
Related names
author: Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581
subject: Suffolk, Henry Brandon, Duke of, 1535-1551
subject: Suffolk, Katharine Willoughby Brandon, Duchess of, 1519-1580
associated with: Mair, G. H. (George Herbert), 1887-1926
associated with: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
subject: Suffolk, Henry Brandon, Duke of, 1535-1551
subject: Suffolk, Katharine Willoughby Brandon, Duchess of, 1519-1580
associated with: Mair, G. H. (George Herbert), 1887-1926
associated with: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536