The orator : handling a hundred seuerall discourses, in forme of declamations : some of the arguments being drawne from Titus Liuius and other ancient writers, the rest of the authors owne inuention : part of which are of matters happened in our age

Alternate Title:

Orator handling a hundred several discourses, in form of declamations; Orator handling a hundred severall discourses, in forme of declamations; Mirrour of eloquence containing an hundred historicall or rather tragicall declamations

Name:

Le Sylvain, approximately 1535-approximately 1585; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Timespan:

1500-1800; Early works to 1800

Date:

1596

Language:

English

Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard (autograph) (bookplate); Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor)

Publisher:

Printed by Adam Islip

Subject:

Oratory -- Early works to 1800; Oratory; Elocution; Rhetoric -- 1500-1800; Rhetoric

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 436, that is, 432 pages; 19 cm (4to)

Related Place:

England -- London.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Translation of: Epitomé de cent histoires tragiques.; "The epistle" signed: Lazarus Piot, a pseudonym used by Anthony Munday. Cf. DNB vol. 13, p. 1191.; Signatures: A⁴ B-2E⁸ 2F⁴ (A1 blank).; Page numbers 175-176 and 244-245 repeated in sequence.; Woodcuts: title within oranamental border, device, initials, head- and tail-pieces.; Printer's device (McK. no. 268) on t.p.; "Of a Jew, who would for his debt haue a pound of the flesh of a Christian"--P. 400-406.; Imperfect: first blank leaf wanting.; Sales receipt for this work signed by Bernard Quaritch to Horace Howard Furness, November 14, 1887 laid in.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, PN6123 .L413 1596

Collection:

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania); English Renaissance in Context Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)