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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Scholemaster, or, plaine and perfite way of teaching children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate bringing up of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by them selues, without à Scholemaster, in short time, and with small paines, recouer à sufficient habilitie, to understand, write, and speake Latin / by Roger Ascham.

Accession number
PML 5812
Creator
Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568.
Published
At London : Printed by Iohn Daye ..., [1573]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Signatures: [pointing finger]², B-T⁴; A is omitted.
Title-page date, 1571, is incorrect as demonstrated by reset pages and colophon dated 1573.
Printer's mark on last page (with skeleton). Title within ornamental border; initials; tail-pieces.
Colophon: At London. Printed by Iohn Daye. dwelling ouer Aldersgate. 1573.
Colophon leaf inserted in 1963 from PML 5812.
Edited by author's wife, Margaret (Howe) Ascham; "preface" to Sir William Cecil.
Description
[6], 66 [i.e. 67], [1] leaves ; 19 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Extensive underlining and manicules throughout. Marginal sketch of St. George fighting the dragon (?) on M4 (pg.40).
Provenance
E.G. Asay (signature dated Dec. 1881); Theodore Irwin.
Binding
Half green morroco binding by C.M. Ullman, 1963.
Classification
Department