A knowledge for kings, and a warning for subiects : conteyning the moste excellent and worthy history of the Raellyans peruerted state, and gouernment of their common wealth: no lesse rare, then strange ... First written in Latine, by Iames Glaucus a Germaine: and now translated into enlgish by VVilliam Cleuer scholemaster. By speciall recorde, this monument was two thousande yeares of antiquity: and so dusked and forworne with age, that being in a plaine writte[n] letter, could scarce be read ... I with my painefull indeuour haue now renewed it into fresh memorye.
1576
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Title
A knowledge for kings, and a warning for subiects : conteyning the moste excellent and worthy history of the Raellyans peruerted state, and gouernment of their common wealth: no lesse rare, then strange ... First written in Latine, by Iames Glaucus a Germaine: and now translated into enlgish by VVilliam Cleuer scholemaster. By speciall recorde, this monument was two thousande yeares of antiquity: and so dusked and forworne with age, that being in a plaine writte[n] letter, could scarce be read ... I with my painefull indeuour haue now renewed it into fresh memorye.
Created/published
Imprinted at London : By [J. Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, 1576.
Description
[8], 60 leaves ; (8vo)
Associated name
Note
Latin original not traced.
Actual printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A-H⁸ I⁴.
Stationers' register: Entered 15 October [1576]
Actual printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A-H⁸ I⁴.
Stationers' register: Entered 15 October [1576]
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Not certain the nation described is fictional; more work could be done on this.
Not certain the nation described is fictional; more work could be done on this.
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), 11920
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S105734
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S105734
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 11920
Folger-specific note
HH96/7. Blue goatskin binding, gold-tooled and signed by Lloyd. T.p. badly stained and mended, with some letters in facsimile; t.p. supplied in photostat from another copy; some leaves cropped. Provenance: Sotheby sale, 24/25 November 1921:425; Harmsworth copy