The image of governance compiled of the actes and sentences notable, of the moste noble Emperour Alexander Seuerus
By: late translated out of Greke into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Eliot, Knight, in the fauour of nobylitie.
Contributors: Lampridius, Aelius.; Eucolpius.; Berthelet, Thomas, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: In officina Thomae Bertheleti typis impress. ...
Published: 1541
Place of publication: Londini
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Severus Alexander, Emperor of Rome, 208-235.; Kings and rulers -- Duties -- Early works to 1800.; Education of princes -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has bookplate of Victor Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey.
STC (2nd ed.) 7664
Printer and place of printing from colophon, which is dated 1540.
"Although Elyot calls his author 'Eucolpius' [secretary to Severus Alexander], the present work is very freely based on A. Lampridius' account in Historiae Augustae scriptores"--STC.
Pages numbered on one side only.
T.p. in illustrated border; illustrated initials throughout; Berthelet's printer's device on verso b4.
Signatures: a-b⁴ A-2C⁴.