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An introduction to a deuoute life : composed in Frenche by the R. Father in God, Francis Sales, Bishop of Geneua. And translated into Englisg [sic], by I.Y.

Francis, de Sales, Saint, 1567-1622. author.; Yakesley, John.; Auroi, Pierre, -1631, printer.; Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
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Title
An introduction to a deuoute life : composed in Frenche by the R. Father in God, Francis Sales, Bishop of Geneua. And translated into Englisg [sic], by I.Y.
Uniform title
Introduction à la vie dévote. English
Edition
The 2. edition.
Created/published
[Douai] : [printed] By [P. Auroi for] Iohn Heigham. With permission, 1613.
Description
587, [13] p. ; (12mo)
Associated name
Francis, de Sales, Saint, 1567-1622. author.
Yakesley, John.
Auroi, Pierre, -1631, printer.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Note
I.Y. = John Yakesley.

A translation of: Introduction à la vie dévote.

The title page is engraved.

Place of printing and actual printer's name from STC.

Signatures: A-2B¹².
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. Fine and Historic Bookbindings (catalog entry 8:6)
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), 11317
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S92581
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 11317
Genre/form
Annotations.
Embroidered bindings.
Place of creation/publication
France.

Call number
STC 11317
Folger-specific note
HH90/20. Embroidered binding: woven silver wire over millboards with silk embroidery (woven silver wire with four rows of stylized flowers and leaf forms worked in colored silks in Florentine stitch); rebacked and repaired. See F. Bearman et al, 'Fine and Historic Bookbindings from the Folger', p. 137. Manuscript notes on back fly-leaf labeled: 'The Collect for the feast of S. Fran. Sales'. Provenance: inscription on back fly-leaf: 'Elisabeth Mannock'; Sotheby sale, 17 May 1926:268; collated at Quaritch; Harmsworth copy

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