The Common-wealth of England
Subtitle: And the manner of gouernement thereof
By: Compiled by the Honorable Sir Thomas Smith, knight, doctour of both lawes, and one of the principall secretaries vnto two most worthy princes, King Edward, and Queene Elizabeth
Edition: With new additions of the chiefe courts in England, and the offices thereof, by the said author. [9th ed.
Publisher: Printed by Will. Stansby for I. Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes church-yard.
Published: 1633
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Politics and government; Early works to 1800; Constitutional law
Work titles: De republica Anglorum
Notes: Added illustrated (engraved) title page, signed Will. Marshall, with the impint: "Printed by W.S. for Iohn Smethwicke, and arr [sic] to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstanes church yard, vnder the Dyall."

Colophon: London, printed by Will. Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes church-yard, vnder the Dyall. 1633.

Smethwicke's device (McKerrow, Devices, no. 376), final leaf, recto.

Collation: A⁶ B-N¹² [$5 (-M4) signed]

Error in pagination: p. 25 numbered 21.

In predominantly Roman type; some italic type.

Initials; head pieces.

Side notes.

An enlarged edition of Smith's De republica Anglorum, a treatise in three books, written between 1562 and 1565 and first printed in 1583 (STC 22857). Smith's description of English law and governmental institutions includes comparisons with other historical and contemporary governments --cf. Oxford DNB.

STC (2nd ed.) 22865

Received Dec. 11, 1911.

Ex libris K.B. Supple -- Sir Richard Brooke -- Bequest of Henry N. Ess, 2000.

Bound in early limp vellum, with spine title in manuscript. On verso of front flyleaf, "Mr. Blackett".

Bound in early to mid-18th century sheep, decorated in blind with fillets and decorative roll. 19th century engraved armorial bookplate of the Brooke family, with the motto "Spes men deus"; above the armorial, in manuscript: "Sir Richard Brooke Bart." At head of engraved title page, "KB Supple".