• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The compleat gentleman : Fashioning him absolute, in the most necessarie and commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie, that may be required in a noble gentleman. Whereunto is annexed a description of the order of a maine battaile, or pitched field, eight seuerall wayes: as also certaine necessarie instructions concerning the art of fishing, with other additions. By Henry Peacham, Master of Arts, sometime of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge
  • Contributor: Peacham, Henry [Author]; Delaram, Francis [Other]
  • Published: London: Printed [by G. Wood] for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Crane, 1627
    Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO
  • Issue: [The second impression much inlarged]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource ([14], 124, 129-227, [2], 300-301, [5] p); ill. (woodcuts)
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Heraldry Early works to 1800 ; Education Early works to 1800 ; Courtesy Early works to 1800
  • Place of reproduction: Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 661:8, 1355:19)
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Reproduction of the originals in the Folger Shakespeare Library and Minnesota University Library
    With an additional title page, engraved, which bears the edition statement. It is signed "Fr. Delaram. sculp. Anno 1626". Variant 1: engraved title imprint gives Constable's address as "ye Greene man in Leaden hall street right over Billeter lane"; the foot of the right pedestal has "sculp. Anno 1625"
    Printer's name from STC
    Appears at reel 661 (Folger Shakespeare Library copy) and at reel 1355 (Minnesota University Library copy)
    STC (2nd ed.), 19503
    Identified as STC 19502a on UMI microfilm reel 661
    Variant 2: with an additional dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, with his coat of arms
  • Description: eebo-0173