A diamonde most precious, worthy to be marked : instructing all maysters and seruauntes, how they ought to leade their lyues, in that uocation which is fruitfull, and necessary, as well for the maysters, as also for the seruants, agreeable vnto the holy Scriptures. Reade me ouer, and then iudge, if I be not well, then grudge: thinke well of him that mee made, for Gods worde shall neuer fade.
A diamonde most precious, worthy to be marked : instructing all maysters and seruauntes, how they ought to leade their lyues, in that uocation which is fruitfull, and necessary, as well for the maysters, as also for the seruants, agreeable vnto the holy Scriptures. Reade me ouer, and then iudge, if I be not well, then grudge: thinke well of him that mee made, for Gods worde shall neuer fade.
Created/published
Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, beneath the Conduite, at the signe of S. Iohn Euaungegelist [sic], by Hugh Iackson, 1577.
Dedication signed: Iohn Fit Iohn. Running title reads: A diamond most precious. Signatures: A-N⁴ O². Stationers' register: Entered 30 July [1577.]
ESTC staff note
RPM 10/09/96
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), 10929 English short title catalogue (ESTC), S117750
HH87/3. Maroon goatskin binding, gold-tooled; lettered in gilt on spine: 'A Diamonde Most Precious 1577'. Manuscript notes in margins and on t.p. and last leaf; pages numbered in ink '1'-'108'. Provenance: inscriptions: on t.p.: 'Will: Dowsing', with citations to some passages in the text, and on sig. O2v: 'I R[ead] this Booke June 6.7.1640. a month want 2 days after my wiues death I haue cause to eat my bread with ashes...'; William Dowsing - Harmsworth copy
