Research Catalog

Title

The compleat gentleman. Fashioning him absolut, in the most necessary and commendable qualities concerning minde or body, that may be required in a noble gentleman. Wherevnto is annexed a description of the order of a maine battaile or pitched field, eight severall wayes: with the art of limming and other additions newly enlarged. By Henry Peacham ...

Author

Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576-approximately 1643.

Publication

London, Printed for F. Constable, 1634.

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Additional Authors

• Legate, John, -1658.
• Constable, Francis, -1647.
• Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 1590-1627.
• Francis Bacon Library. fmo CSmH

Description

2 pt. in 1 v. illus.; 18.5 cm.

Subjects

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Pen drawing > Technique > Early works to 1800
• Watercolor painting > Technique > Early works to 1800
• Courtesy > Early works to 1800
• Symbolism in art > Early works to 1800
• Education > Early works to 1800
• Drawing > Technique > Early works to 1800
• Heraldry > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• Added t.-p., engraved, with "The Second Impression, much Inlarged.
• Part 2 has title: The gentlemans exercise. Or, An exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures: as also the making of all kinds of colours, to be vsed in limming, painting ...
• [Part 2] has imprint: London: printed for I.M. and are to bee sold by Francis Constable, 1634.
• With four leaves, sig. X₃-₆ (the first and last pages numbered 153 and 154 respectively, the other six pages unnumbered) cancelling sig. X₃, p. 153-154 of [part 1] In this copy the cancelled leaf is also present.

Indexed In (note)

• STC
• Huntington check-list
• Hazlitt

Call Number

*KC 1634 (Peacham, H. Compleat gentleman)

LCCN

18001635 /a

OCLC

39805060

Author

Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576-approximately 1643.

Title

The compleat gentleman. Fashioning him absolut, in the most necessary and commendable qualities concerning minde or body, that may be required in a noble gentleman. Wherevnto is annexed a description of the order of a maine battaile or pitched field, eight severall wayes: with the art of limming and other additions newly enlarged. By Henry Peacham ...

Imprint

London, Printed for F. Constable, 1634.

Indexed In:

STC 19504 Copy 1

Huntington check-list, 1919, p. 327 Copy 1

Hazlitt, I, 324 Copy 1

Local Note

Copy 1: Imperfect: engraved t.-p. wanting.

Copy 2: With the cancels but without the cancelled leaf.

Copy 2: Imperfect: engraved t.-p. wanting, printed t.-p. mutilated (imprint date torn away)

Copy 2: With autographs of Will: Stephens and George L. Duyckinck.

Source

98973 Copy 1.

Lenox. Copy 2.

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Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.

Added Author

Legate, John, -1658. Printer. Attributed name

Constable, Francis, -1647. Bookseller

Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 1590-1627. Engraver

Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576-approximately 1643. Gentlemans exercise.

Brown, Basil, 1860-1928. Former owner CSmH

Francis Bacon Library. Former owner CSmH

Research Call Number

*KC 1634 (Peacham, H. Compleat gentleman) Copy 1

8-*KC 1634 (Peacham, H. Compleat gentleman) Copy 2 Library has: [Part 1]