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The kegiment [sic] of life : wherunto is added A treatyse of the pestilence, with the booke of children newly corrected and enlarged by T. Phayer.

Goeurot, Jean, author.; Phayer, Thomas, 1510?-1560.; Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.; Houssemaine, Nicolas de, -1523. Régime contre la peste.
1546
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Title
The kegiment [sic] of life : wherunto is added A treatyse of the pestilence, with the booke of children newly corrected and enlarged by T. Phayer.
Uniform title
Summaire tressingulier de toute médecine et cyrurgie. English
Created/published
[Imprinted at london] : [in Fletestrete at the signe of the Sunne ouer against the conduyte, bdward Whitchurche], [the last daye of Iune. 1.5.4.6. [1546]]
Description
[8], xxix, xxxi-xxxiiii, xxxiiii-xxxvi, xxxviii-lxix, lxxi-lxxxii, [112] leaves ; 16
Associated name
Goeurot, Jean, author.
Phayer, Thomas, 1510?-1560.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Houssemaine, Nicolas de, -1523. Régime contre la peste.
Note
A translation by Thomas Phayer of "Sommaire et entretènement de vie" by Jean Goeurot and "Régime contre la peste" by Nicolas de Houssemaine, each with separate foliation but with continuous register. "The booke of children" is a compilation of several authors; in this edition the preface is printed before the other two works and the text follows, unfoliated.

Title within cartouche dated 1545.

Imprint from colophon.

Imprimatur at foot of colophon: Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

Leaves a7-8 are blank.

Signatures: a8 A-X8 2A-2C8.

With numerous misfoliations.
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), 11969
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S5111
Includes
Boke of chyldren.
Book of children.
Genre/form
Printing privileges.
Imprimaturs.
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.

Call number
STC 11969
Folger-specific note
HH165/1. Manuscript notes. Provenance: Harmsworth copy

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