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Author Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Title The compleat gentleman : Fashioning him absolute, in the most necessarie and commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie, that may be required in a noble gentleman. Whereunto is annexed a description of the order of a maine battaile, or pitched field, eight seuerall wayes: as also certaine necessarie instructions concerning the art of fishing, with other additions. By Henry Peacham, Master of Arts, sometime of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge.
Publication Info London : Printed [by G. Wood] for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Crane, 1627.
Edition [The second impression much inlarged].



Descript [14], 124, 129-227, [2], 300-301, [5] p. : ill. (woodcuts)
Edition [The second impression much inlarged].
Note With an additional title page, engraved, which bears the edition statement. It is signed "Fr. Delaram. sculp. Anno 1626". Variant 1: engraved title imprint gives Constable's address as "ye Greene man in Leaden hall street right over Billeter lane"; the foot of the right pedestal has "sculp. Anno 1625".
Printer's name from STC.
Variant 2: with an additional dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, with his coat of arms.
Identified as STC 19502a on UMI microfilm reel 661.
Reproduction of the originals in the Folger Shakespeare Library and Minnesota University Library.
Appears at reel 661 (Folger Shakespeare Library copy) and at reel 1355 (Minnesota University Library copy).
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Author Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Series Early English books online.
Subject Education -- Early works to 1800.
Courtesy -- Early works to 1800.
Heraldry -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627.
Descript [14], 124, 129-227, [2], 300-301, [5] p. : ill. (woodcuts)
Edition [The second impression much inlarged].
Note With an additional title page, engraved, which bears the edition statement. It is signed "Fr. Delaram. sculp. Anno 1626". Variant 1: engraved title imprint gives Constable's address as "ye Greene man in Leaden hall street right over Billeter lane"; the foot of the right pedestal has "sculp. Anno 1625".
Printer's name from STC.
Variant 2: with an additional dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, with his coat of arms.
Identified as STC 19502a on UMI microfilm reel 661.
Reproduction of the originals in the Folger Shakespeare Library and Minnesota University Library.
Appears at reel 661 (Folger Shakespeare Library copy) and at reel 1355 (Minnesota University Library copy).
Author Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Series Early English books online.
Subject Education -- Early works to 1800.
Courtesy -- Early works to 1800.
Heraldry -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627.

Subject Education -- Early works to 1800.
Courtesy -- Early works to 1800.
Heraldry -- Early works to 1800.
Descript [14], 124, 129-227, [2], 300-301, [5] p. : ill. (woodcuts)
Note With an additional title page, engraved, which bears the edition statement. It is signed "Fr. Delaram. sculp. Anno 1626". Variant 1: engraved title imprint gives Constable's address as "ye Greene man in Leaden hall street right over Billeter lane"; the foot of the right pedestal has "sculp. Anno 1625".
Printer's name from STC.
Variant 2: with an additional dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, with his coat of arms.
Identified as STC 19502a on UMI microfilm reel 661.
Reproduction of the originals in the Folger Shakespeare Library and Minnesota University Library.
Appears at reel 661 (Folger Shakespeare Library copy) and at reel 1355 (Minnesota University Library copy).
Alt author Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627.

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