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THBElyot, Sir Thomas (1490?-1546) The Image of Governaunce Compiled of the Actes and Sentences Notable, of the Most Noble Emperour Alexand
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Elyot, Sir Thomas (1490?-1546) The Image of Governaunce Compiled of the Actes and Sentences Notable, of the Most Noble Emperour Alexandre Severus, Late Translated out of Greke into Englishe. London: Imprinted in the house of Thomas Berthelette, 1549. Third edition, small octavo, title printed within architectural woodcut border, text in black letter, bound in full modern calf, some minor faults to text, title remargined, some light worming, a few spots, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
In Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation, Greg Walker writes that, The Image of Governance, "far from being a straightforward life of an ideal emperor, is actually a complex, bitter, and at times savagely satirical rumination on princely power and its perversions, probably prompted at least in part by the fall of Elyot's patron and friend Thomas Cromwell. Many of the details highlighted in the text seem designed to comment upon contemporary events and Henry's slide into tyranny in the course of the 1530s."
A-Z8, Aa4.
http://estc.bl.uk/S111496
Estimate $4,000-6,000
Third edition.
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