APHORISMES, CIVILL AND MILITARIES: Amplified with Authorities, and exemplified with Historie, out of the first Quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.
The second edition. [with] A Briefe Inference upon Guicciardines Digression, in the fourth part of the first Quarterne of his Historie. Forbidden the Impression, and effaced out of the Originall by the Inquisition. In answer to a Letter from an Honourable Friend. Pp. [vi]+340(last blank)+62(last blank), headpiece decorations and decorative initials; small demy 4to; early calf boards with blind rule borders, rebacked, later calf spine with gilt lettered & decorated red leather title label and raised bands, edges of boards lightly worn; the pastedowns at some time (not recently) lifted and loose, revealing part of the printed backing sheets, with an early inked inscription scribbled over on the [loose] upper pastedown, book label of David Levine, Sydney, and early catalogue slip on the upper pastedown [backing], early inked inscription scribbled over on the recto of the loose pastedown, a couple of small edge chips or splits, two ink blots near bottom edge page 316, a few light marginal damp stains and occasional slight foxing; printed by M. Fletcher [and John Haviland] for Robert Allot, London, 1629. Second edition. STC 6198; Cockle 84. *The first edition (1613) included a portrait of Prince Charles and an errata, but not the translation of the 'forbidden' digression. 'A book of precepts drawn up, in the first instance, for the instruction of Henry, Prince of Wales, of whose household Dallington was a member' [Cockle page 69]. Adapted from the Historia di Italia by Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), which is considered a classic work of Renaissance history. Item #169861
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