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Lot 52
P[eacham] (H[enry, the Elder]) The Garden of Eloquence, second edition, 1593.
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000
Description
P[eacham] (H[enry, the Elder]) The Garden of Eloquence, conteining the Most Excellent Ornaments, Exornations, Lightes, Flowers, and Formes of Speech, commonly called the Figures of Rhetorike, second edition, black letter, woodcut initials, damp-staining, heavier towards end, title rather soiled and with tape repairs to outer corners, AB2 and 2C2-2D4 (8ff.) with tape repair to upper corner, occasional browning or soiling, 20th-century antique-style speckled calf, a little rubbed, [STC 19498], small 4to, by R[ichard] F[ield] for H. Iackson dwelling in Fleetstrete, 1593.
⁂ Henry Peacham the Elder (1546-1634), curate and father of Henry Peacham the Younger (1578-c.1644), author of The Complete Gentleman. The Garden of Eloquence takes the form of a manner of dictionary, listing and defining rhetorical devices current in Elizabethan English.
Description
P[eacham] (H[enry, the Elder]) The Garden of Eloquence, conteining the Most Excellent Ornaments, Exornations, Lightes, Flowers, and Formes of Speech, commonly called the Figures of Rhetorike, second edition, black letter, woodcut initials, damp-staining, heavier towards end, title rather soiled and with tape repairs to outer corners, AB2 and 2C2-2D4 (8ff.) with tape repair to upper corner, occasional browning or soiling, 20th-century antique-style speckled calf, a little rubbed, [STC 19498], small 4to, by R[ichard] F[ield] for H. Iackson dwelling in Fleetstrete, 1593.
⁂ Henry Peacham the Elder (1546-1634), curate and father of Henry Peacham the Younger (1578-c.1644), author of The Complete Gentleman. The Garden of Eloquence takes the form of a manner of dictionary, listing and defining rhetorical devices current in Elizabethan English.
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