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A dialogue betweene experience and a courtier, of the miserable state of the worlde / compiled in the Scottish tung by Syr David Lindsey [sic] ... ; first turned and made perfect Englishe; and now the second time corrected and amended according to the first copie ... ; hereunto also are annexed certain other workes invented by the saide Knight ...

Accession number
PML 6263
Creator
Lindsay, David, active 1490-1555.
Published
London : T. Purfoote, 1581.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
First Scotch edition 1552-54?.
The dialogue first printed in Scottish at Edinburgh, 1554, with false and undated imprint.
With additional misfoliations not affecting the series collated above.
This is probably 3d English edition.
Description
[4], 119, 110-126, 129-140 leaves ; 18 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
"The last of July 1581" added in manuscript to title page, with an unidentified inscription in Greek. Marginal annotation on L8v, partially obliterated.
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Brown morocco, by F. Bedford.
Classification
Department