BIB_ID
130089
Accession number
MA 662
Display Date
ca. 1579
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (26 p.), bound ; 31.8 cm
Notes
Pages are ruled in brown ink; catchwords throughout; with speech prefixes in italic hand in left margin.
Authorship was formerly attributed to Robert Parsons.
Dating from dealer description.
Leicester's Commonwealth is STC 19399.
Authorship was formerly attributed to Robert Parsons.
Dating from dealer description.
Leicester's Commonwealth is STC 19399.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1910.
Summary
Libel on Lord Leicester, in the form of a dialogue between a gentleman, a lawyer, and a scholar. Contains "Epistle Dedycatory to Mr G M in Gratious Streete in London". Also contains "Certaine notes taken out of some other authour concerninge my Lor[d] of Leicestors Com[m]on wealth."
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