Beschreibung:

Guevara (Antonio de). The Dial of Princes compiled by the reverend father in God Don Antony of Guevara, Byshop of Guadir, Preacher, & Chronicler to Charles the fift, late of that name Emperour. Englished out of the French by Thomas North, sonne of Sir Edward North knight L. North of Kirtheling. And nowe newly reuised and corrected by hym, refourmed of faultes escaped in the first edition : with an amplification also of a fourth booke annexed to the same, entituled The fauoured Courtier, never heretofore imprynted in our vulgare tongue. Right necessarie and pleasaunt to all noble and vertuous persons, [London]: Nowe newly imprinted by Richarde Tottill. An. Domini. 1582, [28 (of 30) unnumbered leaves], 476 numbered leaves (folios 1-476), A6 (lacking A7-8), B-C8, A-NNn8, OOo4, woodcut title, woodcut initials, black letter text, a very fine copy with clean wide margins, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, later 19th-century marbled endpapers, with 19th-century bookplate of Henry Cunliffe Armiger to front pastedown, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front endpaper, old bookseller's printed catalogue description tipped-in to front endpaper, fine later 19th century gilt-decorated red-brown full levant morocco by Riviere, with large centre ornament to each side, gilt lettered and decorated spine in compartments between five raised bands, some fading to spine, small 4to [60], 476 [i.e. 752], [1] p. A-C⁸ D⁶ A-3N⁸ 3O⁴. (Quantity: 1) Provenance: Reverend Henry Cunliffe (1826-1894), Vicar of Shifnal, Shropshire, fourth son of Sir Robert Henry Cunliffe, 4th Baronet (bookplate, and bibliographical notes in Cunliffe's hand to front endpapers). A selection from his library was sold anonymously at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 21 May 1897, with further books from his library sold by Sotheby's, London, 27 and 28 May 1946; W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey (bookplate). STC 12429. Rare enlarged edition translated by Thomas North from Guevara's Relox de Príncipes of 1529, a treatise on the education and ideal conduct of princes, and thought to be a source-work for Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.