The history of the seven wise masters of Rome: containing seven days entertainment[:] in many pleasant and witty tales, or stories: wherein the treachery of evil counsellors is discovered: innocency cleared; and, the wisdom of seven wise philosophers displayed. Newly corrected, and better explained and enlarged. Adorned with many pretty pictures lively expressing the history

All titles

• The history of the seven wise masters of Rome: containing seven days entertainment[:] in many pleasant and witty tales, or stories: wherein the treachery of evil counsellors is discovered: innocency cleared; and, the wisdom of seven wise philosophers displayed. Newly corrected, and better explained and enlarged. Adorned with many pretty pictures lively expressing the history
• Seven sages of Rome. English.

People / Organizations

• George Conyers ("printed for")

Imprint

London]: Printed by A.W. for G. Conyers, at the Ring, in Little-Britain, [between 1722 and 1739? The two and twentieth edition.; ..

Added name

Conyers, George, -1739 or 1740, bookseller.; Wilde, Allington, 1700-1770, printer.

Publication year

1722-1739

ESTC No.

T498274

Grub Street ID

435756

Description

144 p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; long 12°.

Note

'The history of the seven wise masters' is a collection of oriental stories, dating from at least the tenth century, which was reproduced in many different versions

A.W. = Allington Wilde?; Allington Wilde active from 1722. The latest dated imprints with "G. Conyers" in ESTC are dated 1739. (08/2012); Woodcut frontispiece with title on A1v

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