Theatrum mundi, the theatre or rule of the world
Subtitle: wherin may be seen the running race [and] course of euery man's life, as touching miserie and felicitie : wherein be contained wonderfull examples and learned deuises to the ouerthrovv of vice and exalting of vertue : whereunto is added a learned and pithie worke of the excellency of man
By: written in the French and Latine tongues by Peter Boaistuau ; Englished by Iohn Alday, & by him perused, corrected and amendedd, the olde translation being corrupted.
Contributors: Alday, John.; East, Thomas, 1540?-1608?, printer.; Wight, John, d. 1589, publisher.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Thomas Ease, for Iohn VVyght
Published: 1581
Place of publication: Imprinted in London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Human beings -- Early works to 1800.; Suffering -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Theatre or rule of the world
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 3170
Signatures: [par.]⁸ 2[par.]⁴ B-S⁸ *⁸ A⁴(-A4).
LC copy imperfect: p. 79-80, 129-130, 143-144, and 159-160 wanting.