1614 Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton antique in ENGLISH

COMMYNES, Philippe de

The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton

London: for John Bill; 1614


 [16], 366 pages.

Title within architectural woodcut border with royal arms above and crest of the dedicatee Lord Burghley atop a bee skep below.

Beautiful woodcut initials.
With genealogical tables on pages 349-366.

English leather binding, both covers detached

English version by Thomas Danett.


-Ref. Not in Bibl. Belg.-

Heraldic bookplate James Banks Stanhope

Small folio. Size 7 1/3 by 11 1/3"

Text in English
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Philippe de Commines (also Commynes or Comines; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 –  1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France.
He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature).
Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.
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