Wilson's Arte of rhetorique, 1560
By: ed. by G.H. Mair.
Contributors: Mair, George Herbert, 1887-1926.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.
Series: Tudor & Stuart library; Library of English literature -- LEL 10707.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1909
Place of publication: [Oxford]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Suffolk, Henry Brandon, -- Duke of, -- 1535-1551; Suffolk, Katharine Willoughby Brandon, -- Duchess of, -- 1519-1580; Rhetoric; Oratory
Notes: "A reprint of the edition of 1585 ... collated with the edition of 1567, and with that of 1560 (which is the editio princeps)."

Original title, within illustrated border: The Art of Rhetorique, for vse of all such as are studious of Eloquence, set forth in English, by Thomas Wilson 1553. And now newly set forth againe, with a Prologue to the Reader, 1567. Imprinted at London, by George Robinson, 1585.

Among the examples given are: An examle of commending a noble personage [two noble gentlemen, Henry duke of Suffolke, and his brother Lord Charles]: p. 14-17; An epistle to perswade a yong gentlemen to mariage, deuised by Erasmus: p. 39-63; An example of comfort [addressed to the duchess of Suffolk on the death of her sons]: p. 66-85.

Master microform held by: LrI.

Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 10707).

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