Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...the contemporary Stationers' Registers. The Discord and the Prencipe and the Arte delta Guerra of Machiavelli (1584 and 1587), all with the device of a flourishing palmtree with serpents and toads about the root and the motto: II vostro malignare non gioua nulla, were attributed to him, apart from other typographical reasons, on account of his appearing as the possessor of this device in 1593, six years before Adam Islip used it, to which may now be added that this palm-tree is found three more times in books printed by Wolfe in 1592 and 1593, and as early as 1594 in one printed by Islip,1 and that according to documentary evi The following corrections should be made in this part. First: The figures in the Roman numerals, p. 3, A 5 and B 1-3, should all be of the same size. Second: In the title read 1589 for 1588; p. 3, B 2, Carte viii + 288 for Pp. xvi-f-292; p. 5, col. 2, 1. 5, si parlu for riparla and ibid., 1. 14, the for The. Third: Supply Carte 0+115 at the close of A 5, an apostrophe B 1 after e in el, dividing lines after A 1, xxviij di, A 2 Prencipe, chiauelli and nella, A 3 uelli, Xiammendate, A 5 seguente, Bl Ficata and Si and B 3 cosa, and hyphens after A 3 appres, B1 dmiand Si and B 2 amosci. 1 Wolfe used the device of the palm-tree, which so excellently fits the Discorsi and the Prencipe of Machiavelli that it must have been specially designed for them, quite appropriately in two controversial books by Gabriell Harvey, viz., Foure Letters and certaine Sonnets: Especially touching Robert Greene, and other parties, by him abused, etc., dence the latter bought his type and printing implements from the former and therefore obtained the device in question in a perfectly legal way. The First and Second Part of the Ragionamenti of Pietro...
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