Six excellent treatises of life and death
By: collected (and published in French) by Philip Mornay, sieur du Plessis ; and now (first) translated into English
Contributors: Lownes, Humphrey, -1629, printer
Publisher: by H. L[ownes]. for Mathew Lownes: and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls churchyard ...
Published: 1607
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
Subjects: Death; Life
Other titles: Axiochus. English. 1607.
Notes: Signatures: A-Y12, Z6 (Z6 blank except for rules, not present in this copy).

"Axiocvs. A dialogue written by Plato ... " (A5r-D10r) is spurious.

"The translator to the reader. Here knowe, that the first discourse, mentioned in the aduertisement ensuing, is none of these sixe ... but another ... formerly translated by the Countesse of Pembroke [i.e. Mornay's A discovrse of life and death]"--A2v.

Translation of the pieces appended to Mornay's: Excellent discovrs de la vie et de la mort.

Printer's name from STC.

STC (2nd ed.) 18155
Table of contents: title: Plato his Axiocus; title: A discourse of Tvllivs Cicero's, concerning death; title: Collections out of Seneca's Works, touching life & death; title: A sermon of mortality / made by S. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage; title: A treatise of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, touching the benefit & happinesse of death; title: Certain places of Scripture, prayers & meditations, concerning life and death.