Guilielmi Roperi Vita D. Thomæ Mori equitis aurati, : lingua Anglicana contexta. : Accedunt, Mori Epistola de scholasticis quibusdam Trojanos sese appellantibus; Academiæ Oxoniensis epistolæ et orationes aliquammultæ; anonymi Chronicon Godstovianum; et Fenestrarum depictarum ecclesiæ parochialis de Fairford in agro Glocestriensi explicatio. / E codicibus vetustis descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius, A.M. Oxoniensis, ; qui et notas subjecit.

Accession number

PML 6450

Creator

Roper, William, 1496-1578.

Published

[Oxonii] : Veneunt apud editorem., 1716.

Notes

Advertisements on p. 287-289 and on p. 295.
Subscriber's list: p. 290-295.
One of 48 cops. on large paper - with engraved portrait of More and t.p. by M. Burghers.
The Vita was first published in 1626, with title: The mirrour of vertue in worldly greatnes.
Title page engraved.
Place of publication taken from editor's preface; p. xxiv signed: Scribebam Oxonii in aula Edmundi a. d. XVIIum. Kalendas Novembres MDCCXVI.
Final page blank.

Description

xl, 295, [1] p. : port. ; 21 cm.

Provenance

Sir W.W. Burrell, bookplate; Toovey collection.

Binding

Rebacked calf, original sides.

Classification

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