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ELYOT (THOMAS) The Image of Governaunce Compiled of the Actes and Sentences Notable of the Most Noble Emperour Alexandre Severus, late Translated out of Greke into Englishe, first edition, [Thomas Berthelet], 1549
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ELYOT (THOMAS)
The Image of Governaunce Compiled of the Actes and Sentences Notable of the Most Noble Emperour Alexandre Severus, late Translated out of Greke into Englishe, first edition, black letter, title within architectural woodcut border, one side-note very slightly shaved, a few ink marks on final leaf, late ninteteenth century blindstamped calf by Sotheran & Co., slightly scuffed, g.e. [STC 7666], 8vo (140 x 189mm.), [Thomas Berthelet], 1549
Footnotes
"Based, according to the preface, on a Greek manuscript by Eucolpius, secretary to Severus Alexander, with the addition of extracts from other Latin and Greek authors; in fact based very freely on sections of: Lampridius, A. Historiae Augustae scriptores" (ESTC).
Provenance: Sotheby's, 24 January 1950, lot 307A, catalogue note loosely inserted.
