The boke named the Gouernour, deuysed by syr Thomas Elyot knight.
1537
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Title
The boke named the Gouernour, deuysed by syr Thomas Elyot knight.
Created/published
[[London] : Thomas Berthelet regius impressor excudebat. Cum priuilegio, Anno. 1537. mense Iulij]
Description
[8], 72, 74-111, 113-212, 212-217, 219-241, [1] leaves ; (8vo)
Associated name
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546, author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Britwell Library, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Britwell Library, former owner.
Note
Woodcut title-page border has "1534" in sill.
Imprint from colophon.
Includes index.
Running title reads: The gouernour.
Last leaf is blank.
Signatures: a⁸ A-2G⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Includes index.
Running title reads: The gouernour.
Last leaf is blank.
Signatures: a⁸ A-2G⁸.
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available for copy 1.
ESTC staff note
rpm 09/23/96
Signatures from DFo.
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Copy 1. Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Vivat Rex!
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 7636
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100413
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100413
Genre/form
Privileges (permissions)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 7636 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs4250. Lacking last blank. Provenance: inscriptions on t.p.: "Fr. Chevor", "Thomas Jolye" and "John Kearney"; on front-free endpaper: label numbered "92/1", Britwell Court shelfmark: "73.C.22", and inscription: "Sale by Christie June 24th 1840, no. 92-5/"; purchased by Folger from Pickering Catalogue 288:56
Call number
STC 7636 Copy 2 Bd.w. STC 14278 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH120/13.2. HH80/15. Brown calf binding, blind-tooled, with visible holes for ties; spine rebacked and lettered in gilt: 'The Doctrinall The Governour The Bankette of Sapience. Syr Thomas Eliot. 1534.'. Copy stained. With: Isocrates. The doctrinall of princis. [1533?] -- Elyot, Thomas. The bankette of sapience. 1539 (shelfmark STC 7630) Provenance: bookplate of Thomas Rawlins de Pophills Warw. (motto 'in mercurio triumpho'); Sotheby sale, 8 March 1926:197; Harmsworth copy