The compleat gentleman. Fashioning him absolute, in the most necessarie and commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie, that may be required in a noble gentleman. Whereunto is annexed a description of the order of a maine battaile, or pitched field, eight seuerall wayes: as also certaine necessarie instructions concerning the art of fishing, with other additions. By Henry Peacham, Master of Arts, sometime of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge.

People / Organizations

• Henry Peacham (Author)

Imprint

London: Printed [by G. Wood] for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Crane, 1627.

Added name

Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.

Publication year

1627

ESTC No.

S114314

Grub Street ID

134032

Description

[14], 124, 129-227, [2], 300-301, [5] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 4⁰

Note

With an additional title page, engraved, which bears the edition statement. It is signed "Fr. Delaram. sculp. Anno 1626". Variant 1: engraved title imprint gives Constable's address as "ye Greene man in Leaden hall street right over Billeter lane"; the foot of the right pedestal has "sculp. Anno 1625".

Printer's name from STC.

Variant 2: with an additional dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, with his coat of arms.

Signatures: pi1 A-2G? 2H?.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures from DFo