] Aphorismes Civill and Militarie amplified with
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( Sir Robert)] Aphorismes Civill and Militarie amplified with Authorities and exemplified with Historie out of the first Quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine , first edition , W.W. Greg's copy , title with woodcut printer's device and fine engraved portrait of Prince Charles verso, ;woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, contemporary ink marginalia, lacking initial and final blanks, occasional spotting, modern mottled calf, gilt, [STC 6197; Cockle 84], [by R. Field] for Edward Blount, 1613; and a second edition of the same, in contemporary calf, folio (2) In 1609 Dallington presented Prince Henry with a manuscript Aphorismes civill and militarie, comprising pieces selected from the Italian historian Guicciardini. Following the prince's death in 1612 Dallington reworked his Aphorismes , which were published in 1613 with a new dedication to Prince Charles. Provenance: W.W.Greg (1875-1959), bibliographer and Shakespeare scholar; Sir Robert Birley (1903-1982), headmaster of Charterhouse and Eton College; President of the Bibliographical Society 1979-1980 (ink inscriptions to front endpapers).
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