Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine, Contemplative, Practical [and] Moral, Ethical, Oeconomical, Political

Quarles, Francis

Verlag: John Russell Smith, London, 1856

Beschreibung

12mo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-174, [2] pp. Half brown calf over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with black decorations and a brown morocco label lettered in gold; all edges decoratively stained red. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Quarles. Oxford DNB, Karl Josef Höltgen, "Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)". Quarles wrote this book of aphorisms based on the writings of Machiavelli and Bacon. Written during the English Civil War, the book provides invaluable political advice for a monarch, expressed in compact but useful language. Light rubbing to the extremities, a contemporary gift inscription on the first blank leaf. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000013008

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine,...

Verlag: John Russell Smith, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1856

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: Later printing.