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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About this work
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
Contributors
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.
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 3170.
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