La Perrière, Guillaume de

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Description

The Mirrour of Policie. A Worke Nolesse Profitable than Necessarie, for all Magistrates, and Governours of Estates and Commonweales. London: Adam Islip, 1598
paper, ink, leather

4to (190 x 130 mm). Title vignette, 2 folding woodcut plates, several full-page woodcuts, text illustrations; title rubbed, repaired at corners and gutter, three leaves with corners restored, some dampstaining at end. Nineteenth-century red morocco.

Literature

STC 15228.5; Pforzheimer 579

Catalogue Note

first edition. This compilation of instances and anecdotes on the social customs of different nations is an anonymous translation of Le Miroir Politique, first published at Lyons in 1555.