The French academie
Subtitle: fully discoursed and finished in foure bookes ... this fourth part neuer before published in English
By: all written by the first author Peter de la Primavday ...
Contributors: Bowes, Thomas, fl. 1586.; Dolman, R.; W. P.; Adams, Thomas, d. 1620, bookseller.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Adams
Published: 1618
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1038
Subjects: Conduct of life.
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 15241
Halkett & Laing (3rd ed.), F137
Engraved t.p.
Each part has special t.p.
Translator's dedication to part 1 signed: T.B.C. [i.e. Thomas Bowes, clerk?]. Cf. Halkett and Laing.
Signatures: [par.]⁶ *⁶ A-4T⁶(-4T6, blank?). Errors: Dd4, Mm2, Aaa2 incorrectly signed Cc4, Mm3, Aaa3 respectively.
Errors in pagination: p. 80, 128, 173, 176, 338, 347, 348, 390, 447, 470, 503, 536, 537, 538, 571, 786, 799, 863, 876, 909, misnumbered 90, 218, 175, 178, 328, 349, 350, 389, 474, 460, 501, 546, 547, 548, 577, 776, 790, 862, 879, 990 respectively.
LC copy imperfect: leaf [par.]2 wanting.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Institution of manners and callings of all estates; title: pt. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man / translanted out of the second edition, which was reuiewed and augmented by the author; title: pt. 3. A notable description of the whole world, &c. / Englished by R. Dolman; title: pt. 4. Christian philosophie, instructing the true and onely means to eternall life / translated out of French by W.P. [William Philip?, cf. Halkett and Laing].