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The English works of Roger Ascham, preceptor to Queen Elizabeth.

Accession number
PML 5810
Creator
Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568.
Published
London : Printed for White, Cochrane, & Co., 1815.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
"This impression is limited to 250 copies."
Edited by J.G. Cochrane.
Engraved plate signed by M. Berg (Burgers) tipped in opposite t.p.; previously published in 1703 edition of Ascham's epistles, it includes rondelle portraits of ten individuals associated with Ascham (names available on request).
Passages quoted from the book in a contemporary hand.
Description
xxviii, 391 p. ; port. ; 19cm.
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Green morocco by Hammond, gold tooled in the style of Roger Payne.
Classification
Department