Theatrum mundi : The theatre or rule of the world, wherin may be seene the running race & course of euery mans life, as touching miserie and felicitie, wherein be contained wonderfull examples and learned deuises, to the ouerthrovv of vice and exalting of vertue. Wherevnto is added a learned and pithie worke of the excellency of man, written in the French and Latine tongues by Peter Boaistuau, Englished by Iohn Alday, and by him perused, corrected and amended, the olde translation being corrupted.

  • Boaistuau, Pierre, -1566
Date:
1581
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Also known as

Theatre du monde. English
Le theatre du monde.
Rule of the world.

Publication/Creation

Imprined at London : By Thomas East, for Iohn VVyght, 1581.

Physical description

24 unnumbered pages, 272 pages, 24 unnumbered pages

References note

STC (2nd ed.) 3170.

Notes

Translation of: Le theatre du monde.
Running title reads: The rule of the world.
With eleven final contents leaves.
The last leaf bears Wight's printer's device.
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 281:05) s1999 miun s

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