Accession number
PML 152490
Creator
Guevara, Antonio de, -1545?
Published
Newtown [Montgomeryshire] : At the Gregynog Press, 1938.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"Reprinted from the edition of 1651, with an introduction by Henry Thomas, and wood engravings by Reynolds Stone."
Colophon: "400 copies printed by James Wardrop at the Gregynog Press, Newtown Montgomeryshire, November MCMXXXVIII."
"Vaughan's translation (originally published as part of his Olor Iscanus, 1651) of Ægidius van der Myle's Vitae rusticae encomium, which was extracted and abridged from Guevara's Menosprecio de corte y alabanza de Aldea"--NUC Pre-1956.
Wood engravings in the classic style of Thomas Bewick.
Introduction signed "British Museum H. Thomas"--P. xv.
PML copy: library has no. 399.
"Guevara: Praise of the Countrie Life"--Binder's spine.
Colophon: "400 copies printed by James Wardrop at the Gregynog Press, Newtown Montgomeryshire, November MCMXXXVIII."
"Vaughan's translation (originally published as part of his Olor Iscanus, 1651) of Ægidius van der Myle's Vitae rusticae encomium, which was extracted and abridged from Guevara's Menosprecio de corte y alabanza de Aldea"--NUC Pre-1956.
Wood engravings in the classic style of Thomas Bewick.
Introduction signed "British Museum H. Thomas"--P. xv.
PML copy: library has no. 399.
"Guevara: Praise of the Countrie Life"--Binder's spine.
Description
[iv], v-xv, [1], 37, [2] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 19 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Green paper over boards, 3/4 red levant morocco, paper label on front cover with letterpress title within agricultural woodcut; bound by Gregynog Press Bindery (stamped at back).
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