Espeio, y deceplina militar
By: por el Mastre del Campo Francisco de Valdes ; en el qual se trata del officio del sargento mayor ; con el Discurso sobre la forma de reduzir la disceplena militar, à meyor y antiguo estado, por Don Sancho de Londonno, Maestre del Campo
Publisher: En casa de Roger Velpius, en l'Aguila Dorada, çerca del Palataio
Published: 1589
Place of publication: En Brussellas
Language: spa
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Military art and science; Early works to 1800; Military discipline
Notes: First published 1586; first English ed., translated by John Thorie, published London: John Wolfe, 1590.

Signatures: A-K⁴ L², a-l⁴.

L2 has recto blank, and printer's device on verso.

Leaves printed on both sides.

Title within a border of typographical ornaments.

Printed marginal notes.

"El discurso sobre la forma de reduzir la disceplena militar" has special t.p.

"El discurso sobre la forma de reduzir la disceplena militar" has special t.p.

Adams V22

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 347436

Cockle, M.J.D. Military books, 562-563

Peeters-Fontainas, J. Bibl. des impressions espagnoles des Pays-Bas méridionaux, 1334

Copy of John Thorie, translator of the 1590 English ed. of the Espeio (the only pt. to be translated into English), and the copy licensed for the press and entered in the Stationers' register (for a detailed description of the evidence, see bookdealer's description).

Ms. notes (cropped), fists, corrections, and underscoring of John Thorie.

Contemporary ms. license to print, leaf 41v: This book is allowed to be printed by John Wolfe in English [signed] Abraham Hartwell; contemporary inscription (by Richard Collins, clerk of the Stationers' Company): entred this vth Decemb[er] 1589; signature: Ralfe Newberye [Warden of the Stationers' Company]; signature, almost completely cropped, of Gabriel Cawood, Warden of the Stationer's Company; printing privileges on t.p. verso and dedication have been crossed out, probably by Hartwell.

[26] leaves bound in after text; leaves [1]-[5] &[7] ([6] has been torn out) have notes in English, in a different hand, relating to heraldry, leaves [8]-[22] are blank, and [23]-[26] contain 7 p. of notes (written upside down, in a 3rd hand) on members of the orders of chivalry, together with a list of marquises, earls, viscounts and barons, including Lord Burleigh, which date the notes to before 1605 (see bookdealer's description).

Bookplate: Ex libris JPF [Jean Peeters-Fontainas] no. 1413.

Imperfect: lacks the "Discurso," 44 leaves at end.

Bound in contemporary limp vellum, with remains of leather ties at the fore-edge.