The English gentleman; and the English gentlevvoman: : both in one volume couched, and in one modell portrayed: to the living glory of their sexe, the lasting story of their worth. Being presented to present times for ornaments; commended to posterity for presidents. With a ladies love-lecture and supplement lately annexed, and entituled The turtles triumph. /
Brathwait, Richard,1588?-1673.
Marshall, William,active 1617-1650,engraver.
Ramsay, M.,former owner.StEdNL
Dippie, Richard,active 1788,former owner.StEdNL
London : printed by Iohn Dawson,
1641.
A combined edition of: Brathwait, Richard. The English gentleman, and the English gentlewoman, which includes Brathwait's The turtles triumph.
With an added engraved title page by W. Marshall.
Each part has a separate dated title page.
A folding table with "A draught of the frontispiece .." and "The meaning of the frontispiece .." precedes engraved title page; a second folding table precedes The turtles triumph.
"The turtles triumph" has separate pagination and register.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
Pforzheimer
ESTC
Manuscript inscription of the recto of the engraved title page "M. Ramsay" possibly in a 17th century hand and a Latin tag, possibly by the same hand. Another inscription on the verso of the engraved title page "George Dippie's Book Septr. 24th 1788". Marginalia throughout the book apparently by M. Ramsay.
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