[Book of good counsel to the Scots king].
Chepman, Walter,1473?-1538?
Myllar, Androw,active 1503-1508.
[Edinburgh : W. Chepman and A. Myllar,
1508?].
One of nine black-letter tracts printed for Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar, bound together, with two other tracts, to form the volume known as "The Chepman and Myllar prints".
Imperfect: wanting the first (title) and last leaves.
Anonymous: a poem, dating from the 15th cent., in Scots, supposedly addressed to James II of Scotland. The work appears under the title "De regimine principum bonum consilium" in the Maitland Folio MS. The title "Ane buke of gude counsale" was invented by David Laing. Aldis refers to the work as "Buke of gude counsale to the king". cf. Beattie "The Chepman and Myllar prints" (E.B.S., 1950) p. xii.
A facsimile can be found in W. Beattie "The Chepman and Myllar prints" (E.B.S., 1950), and a facsimile with reconstructed title page and final leaves can be found in "The knightly tale of Golagrus and Gawane and other ancient poems" D. Laing's type-facsimile of the Chepman and Myllar prints, published in 1827.
STC (2nd ed.)
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
ESTC
James II, King of Scotland, 1430-1460.