Leben eines herrlichen Bildes wahrer und rechtschaffener Frömmigkeit
Subtitle: welches Gott in dem Königreich Böhmen in der hohen Person Sr. Hoch-Gräfl Excellenz Herrn, Herrn Frantz Antoni, des Heil. Röm. Reichs Grafen von Sporck ... als einen Spiegel reiner Gottesfurcht, allen frommen zu einen Beyspiel aufgerichtet hat
By: aufs neue entworffen durch Gottwald Caesar von Stillenau
Series: German baroque literature, Harold Jantz collection -- no. 2157, reel 446
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1720
Place of publication: Nürnberg?
Language: ger
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Statesmen; Biography; Nobility
Notes: 2nd ed. The first ed. is by Ferdinand van der Roxas (a pseudonym for Friedrich Roth-Scholtz). Sporck found the first ed. faulty & replaced it by the second, supposedly recast by "von Stillenau" but actually with few changes & additions; not so much a biography as a description of Sporck's lawsuits; the engravings present panoramic views of his estates; ends with a poem by Christian Anton Knorr von Rosenroth.

First ed. printed in Nuremberg. Cf. E. Weller.

Signatures: )(⁴ (-)(4=front?) 2)(⁴ 3)(1 A-2E⁴ chi1 2F-2X⁴ a-c⁴ ):(⁴ 2chi² [2nd]):(⁴ 3chi².

T.p. printed in red and black; engraved armorial title vignette; woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces, initials.

Blank leaf inserted before final gathering (3chi²) not included in pagination or signing.

Cf. Weller, E.O. Falsche Druckorte, I, 67.

Stamp: Ex Bibliotheca Horzicensis Ecclesiae Civitatis.

[16] p. [signed )(-2)(⁴] of works concerning Sporck bound in at end.

Bound in green library buckrum.