Title: [The golden boke of Marcus Aurelius, emperour and eloquent oratour]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. f. [1] (blank), [8], 167. Signatures: pi⁴ A-2U⁴. Calf; misdated 1532 on spine. Lacks preliminary gathering (title and table), A1–B3 of main text inlaid, A1–2 slightly defective at margins. Plate of the Warrington Museum. Marginalia, engraved initials, printed in Gothic characters. Place of publication and printer's name from colophon.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition in English of Guevara’s first (anonymous) version of the Libro aureo, a fictitious attribution of this moralizing work to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (second century AD), buttressed by Guevara’s claim to have translated it from a manuscript in Greek – a language he could not read – in the Florentine library of Cosimo de’ Medici. See also Bib# 4911591/Fr# 239 in this collection. STC 12436 records three other copies, two of them also imperfect. See also ESTC, S92770.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039109849707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>