Abraham Flemming | A Panoplie of Epistles, 1576

Abraham Flemming

A panoplie of epistles, or, a looking glasse for the unlearned. Conteyning a perfecte plattforme of inditing letters of all sorts, to persons of al estates and degrees, as well our superiours, as also our equalls and inferiours: used of the best and the eloquentest rhetoricians that have lived in all ages, and have beene famous in that facultie. Gathered and translated out of Latine into English... London: [H. Middleton] for Ralph Newberie, 1576

4to (189 x 129 mm), gothic type, title-page with woodcut border, a handful of early modern annotations (some cropped at margin), modern calf in period style, title-page frayed at margins with minor loss, worming to lower corner of leaves in final gathering, dampstaining throughout

In addition to the classical authors cited, one also finds Roger Ascham (for whom see lot 3).

LITERATURE:

STC 11049; ESTC S102286