The image of Governaunce compiled of the actes and sentences notable, of the most noble emperour Alexander Severus, late translated out of Greke into Englyshe, by sir Thomas Elyote knyght, in the favour of nobilitee
Publisher: Imprynted … By William Powell … by i.e. for Wyllyam Seres
Published: 1556
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">8vo. ff. [11], 167 [i.e. 174], [3], (2 blank). Signatures: A-Z⁸ 2A⁴. Original limp vellum, worn, small holes in boards, upper spine cut, remnants of ties. Manuscript signature and marginalia. On title page, signature of Mary Evans. On D5r, signature of John Evans; D4v, pencil signature of Humphrey Evans. Seres' name and publication place from colophon; actual printer's name from STC. Engraved border around title page, marked "W.P." in lower margin. Engraved initials.

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Fifth edition (the first is 1541). In his autobiographical preface, the distinguished diplomat and humanist Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490-1546) claims to have translated most of the text from a Greek manuscript by one Eucolpius, secretary to Alexander Severus, ‘lente unto me by a gentill man of Naples caled Pudericus’, and eked out the ‘ancient’ text from memory – after the owner ‘importunately called for his boke’–with ‘some other Auctours, as well latines as greekes’. In fact, ‘The Image’ is largely based on a more obvious source, the ‘Vita Alexandri’ of the Historiae Augustae scriptores. See W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, & K. F. Pantzer (eds.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 3 vols. London, 1976–91 (2nd ed.), 7667.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;"><span style="line-height:120%;"></span></p>

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