The government of the tongue / by the author of The whole duty of man, &c.
Accession number:
PML 7703
Published:
Oxford : At the Theater, 1667 [i.e. 1677].
Description:
[12], 214, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm
Credit:
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes:
Attributed also to Lady Dorothy Pakington, Richard Stearne, John Fell, and others. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
This appears to be the genuine fifth impression, printed at Oxford. Cf. Madan, Oxford books. v. 3, p. 344.
Copy 2.
Binding:
English gilt-tooled red morocco (Restoration/Mearne style).
Provenance:
Alice Paine, 1694, signature; Elizabeth Bradburne, 1750, signature and bookplate; Cecil Dunn Gardner, inscriptions (rear pastedown), purchased from Boone, 1858; his sale, Sotheby's London, 21 June 1880, purchased by Irwin; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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