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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 130001
Creator
Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568.
Published
At London : Printed by Iohn Daye ..., An. 1571.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Colophon: At London. Printed by Iohn Daye. dwelling ouer Aldersgate. 1571.
Edited by author's wife, Margaret (Howe) Ascham; "preface" to Sir William Cecil.
Manuscript quotation from Erasmus on title, "Omnia scribendo fit ut memoriae cultus negligatur."
Not a "paginary reprint" of the edition of 1570 (Huth cat.); several pages reset.
Printer's mark (with skeleton) on last page. Title within ornamental border; initials; tail-pieces.
Signatures: [pointing finger]², B-T⁴; A is omitted, and leaves 35, 38, 52, 67 are numbered respectively 50, 42, 51, 65.
Description
[6], 65 [i.e. 67], [1] leaves ; 20 cm
Provenance
Carolesther(?) (signature unclear); Burroughs of Burlingham Hall (bookplate with cypher monogram and motto "Animo et fide" within garter); Henry Huth (gold-stamped armorial bookplate); Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Green morocco, gold-tooled, with dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, possibly by Hayday.
Classification
Department