London : Printed by John Haviland, and are to be sold by Robert Bostock at his shop at the signe of the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard. 1630. First Edition, Small 4to, Eng. title, signed “Ro: Vaughan fecit”, folding letterpress “A Draught of the Frontispice” (sic), ❡2,❡4, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Mmm4, Nnn3, lacking blank Nnn4, faint waterstain to the top of most leaves, ink smudge on Tt1, finely bound in tan morocco, broad gilt borders on sides and fully gilt spine, a.e.g, by Riviere, signed on b/l corner of verso of front fly, Ex libris of Dr. & Mrs H. R. Knohl on front pastedown. A good copy. The first edition of one of the most important of…
London : Printed by John Haviland, and are to be sold by Robert Bostock at his shop at the signe of the Kings head in Pauls Church-yard. 1630. First Edition,
Small 4to, Eng. title, signed “Ro: Vaughan fecit”, folding letterpress “A Draught of the Frontispice” (sic), ❡2,❡4, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Mmm4, Nnn3, lacking blank Nnn4, faint waterstain to the top of most leaves, ink smudge on Tt1, finely bound in tan morocco, broad gilt borders on sides and fully gilt spine, a.e.g, by Riviere, signed on b/l corner of verso of front fly, Ex libris of Dr. & Mrs H. R. Knohl on front pastedown. A good copy.
The first edition of one of the most important of all English courtesy books. This is the first issue, before the addition of the section “Three Choice Characters of Marriage” at the end.
“Although his prolific output has not gained much critical or popular attention since his lifetime, Brathwaite's œuvre is of growing importance as evidence of a gentleman's literary activity in the seventeenth century as well as of particular approaches to social and political issues”. - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
The dictionary credits him with the earliest use [1613] of the word ‘computer’, meaning an arithmetician.
ESTC S104636 ( Newberry/Courtesy Books 207)
Warrington: Printed by William Eyres: and sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson. and C. Dilly in London. 1784. Third Edition
4to, [A]4, B-Z, Aa-Zz, 3A-3S4, 3T 2+1, complete with 1/2-title and “Directions to the Book-binder”, 22 engraved plates, many folding, contemporary 1/2 roan, marbled bds, some skinning to boards, joints a little tender, head of spine chipped, heraldic ex-libris of Howard Vyse on front paste down, a respectable copy.
Of the first edition [1777], Printing and the Mind of Man says “His single-handed campaign not only caused a revolution in his lifetime but is the direct progenitor of subsequent work in the most critical branch of penal reform.”
ESTC T115096
The English Gentleman: Containing Sundry excellent Rulesor exquisite Observations, tending to Direction of every Gentleman, of selecter ranke and qualitie; How to demeane or accommodate himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires.
The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospital
