A very fruteful and pleasant booke called the instruction of a Christen woman : made firste in Latyne, by the right famous clerke mayster Lewes Viues, and tourned out of Latyne into Englishe by Rycharde Hyrde.
1557
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Title
A very fruteful and pleasant booke called the instruction of a Christen woman : made firste in Latyne, by the right famous clerke mayster Lewes Viues, and tourned out of Latyne into Englishe by Rycharde Hyrde.
Uniform title
De institutione foeminae christianae. English
Created/published
Londini : By Henry Wykes, anno MDLVII [1557 i.e. 1567?]
Description
[292] p. : ill. ; (4to)
Associated name
Note
A translation, by Richard Hyrde, of: Vives, Juan Luis. De institutione foeminae christianae.
Printer's name from colophon, which reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete, by Henry Wykes.
Actual date of publication conjectured by STC.
Imprimatur at end of colophon: Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
Running title reads: The instruction of a christen vvoman.
Signatures: A⁶ B-2N⁴.
"This and following eds. omit Hyrd's dedic." -- STC 24858.
Printer's name from colophon, which reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete, by Henry Wykes.
Actual date of publication conjectured by STC.
Imprimatur at end of colophon: Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.
Running title reads: The instruction of a christen vvoman.
Signatures: A⁶ B-2N⁴.
"This and following eds. omit Hyrd's dedic." -- STC 24858.
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), 24861
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S125566
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S125566
Genre/form
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
STC 24861 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH211/28. MS. markings on t.p. MS. shelf-mark. Red goatskin binding, gilt tooled with crowns, coronets, and decorative ornaments; all edges gilt. Title leaf trimmed at tail. Provenance: William Herbert copy (with his MS. note "Perfect") on the front fly-leaf; collated at Quaritch by Max Privett, October 31, 1919; Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 24861 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs106. MS. markings on final leaf. On leaf I3, line 16 is partially censored in black pencil (i.e., the words "and his mother" from the phrase "let hir woorshyppe christe and his mother"). Leaf Y4 is mutilated, affecting text. Tan calf binding, gilt-tooled. Provenance: dated (1861) and signed ("C.C.") bookplate (a printed bookowner's poem entitled "A Pleader to the Needer when a Reader") and book-label of Charles Clark of Totham Hall (1806-1880)