Wilson's Arte of rhetorique, 1560
By: ed. by G. H. Mair.
Contributors: Mair, G. H. 1887-1926.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.
Series: Tudor & Stuart library
Publisher: At the Clarendon press
Published: 1909
Place of publication: [Oxford]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Suffolk, Henry Brandon, Duke of, 1535-1551.; Suffolk, Katharine Willoughby Brandon, Duchess of, 1519-1580.; Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.; Oratory -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: "A reprint of the edition of 1585 ... collated with the edition of 1567, and with that of 1560 (which is the editio princeps)."
Original title, within illustrated border: The Art of Rhetorique, for vse of all such as are studious of Eloquence, set forth in English, by Thomas Wilson 1553. And now newly set forth againe, with a Prologue to the Reader, 1567. Imprinted at London, by George Robinson, 1585.
Among the examples given are: An examle of commending a noble personage [two noble gentlemen, Henry duke of Suffolke, and his brother Lord Charles]: p. 14-17; An epistle to perswade a yong gentlemen to mariage, deuised by Erasmus: p. 39-63; An example of comfort [addressed to the duchess of Suffolk on the death of her sons]: p. 66-85.