Wilson's Arte of rhetorique, 1560 /
by Wilson, Thomas; Mair, G. H. (George Herbert); Erasmus, Desiderius.
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BookSeries: Tudor & Stuart library.Publisher: [Oxford] : At the Clarendon press, 1909Description: 236 p. ; 20 cm.Subject(s): Suffolk, Henry Brandon, Duke of, 1535-1551 | Suffolk, Katharine Willoughby Brandon, Duchess of, 1519-1580 | Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800 | Oratory -- Early works to 1800
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"A reprint of the edition of 1585 ... collated with the edition of 1567, and with that of 1560 (which is the editio princeps)."
Original title, within illustrated border: The Art of Rhetorique, for vse of all such as are studious of Eloquence, set forth in English, by Thomas Wilson 1553. And now newly set forth againe, with a Prologue to the Reader, 1567. Imprinted at London, by George Robinson, 1585.
Among the examples given are: An examle of commending a noble personage [two noble gentlemen, Henry duke of Suffolke, and his brother Lord Charles]: p. 14-17; An epistle to perswade a yong gentlemen to mariage, deuised by Erasmus: p. 39-63; An example of comfort [addressed to the duchess of Suffolk on the death of her sons]: p. 66-85.
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