Accession number
PML 3469.44B
Creator
Bieston, Roger, author.
Published
[London] : [John Wayland], [1556?]
Notes
Running title; title page reads: The bayte & snare of fortune.
Fragment consisting of the final leaf (folio B4) of 10 leaves comprising the first edition of Roger Bieston's The bayte and snare of fortune. Wherein may be seen that money is not the only cause of mischefe and unfortunat endes: but a necessary mean to mayntayne a vertuous quiet lyfe. Treated in a dialoge betwene man and money (London : John Wayland, circa 1556). STC 3055.
Bieston's poem is a translation in eight-line stanzas from the French version by C. Platin, Le debat de lhomme et de l'argent, of an Italian original. Bieston's name is in an acrostic on B4v.
Vertical chain lines.
Printed in black letter.
Verso: "The author" 14 lines ending "Explicit nomen authoris." and "Good Counsayle" 6 lines, ending "Finis."
Fragment consisting of the final leaf (folio B4) of 10 leaves comprising the first edition of Roger Bieston's The bayte and snare of fortune. Wherein may be seen that money is not the only cause of mischefe and unfortunat endes: but a necessary mean to mayntayne a vertuous quiet lyfe. Treated in a dialoge betwene man and money (London : John Wayland, circa 1556). STC 3055.
Bieston's poem is a translation in eight-line stanzas from the French version by C. Platin, Le debat de lhomme et de l'argent, of an Italian original. Bieston's name is in an acrostic on B4v.
Vertical chain lines.
Printed in black letter.
Verso: "The author" 14 lines ending "Explicit nomen authoris." and "Good Counsayle" 6 lines, ending "Finis."
Description
1 leaf ([2] pages) ; 30.7 x 19.5 cm
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