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The holy state
Fuller, Thomas (1608-1661); Marshall, William (1617-1650)
1648
Added, engraved t.p., illustrated. Title, with device, within ornamental border. Initials; head- and tail-pieces. Portraits engraved by W. Marshall. In 5 books. Book 5 has special t.p.: The pr...
The characters, or The manners of the age. By Monsieur de La Bruyere... Made English by several hands. With The characters of Theophrastus, translated from the Greek. And a prefatory discourse to them, by Monsieur de La Bruyere. To which is added, A key to his Characters
La Bruyère, Jean de (1645-1696); Theophrastus
1699
Includes 'The moral characters of Theophastus... ' which has a separate titlepage with the imprint 'London, printed in the year 1698'. It has separate pagination but continuous signatures. A1 blank,...
Characters of vertue and vice : Describ'd in the persons of The wise-man, The valiant man, The truly noble, The patient man, The true friend, The hypocrite, The superstitious, The profane, The busy-body, The envious, Attempted in verse from a treatise of the Reverend Joseph Hall
Tate, Nahum (1652-1715); Hall, Joseph (1574-1656)
1691
Bishop Hall's "Characters of vertues and vices" was published in 1608. Tate here paraphrases 10 of Hall's 26 "characters".
Whimzies: or, A new cast of characters
Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)
1631
Anonymous. By Richard Brathwait. Printer's name from STC. The first two leaves and the last leaf are blank. Original uncancelled title-page. "A cater-character, throwne out of a boxe by an exp...
A strange metamorphosis of man, transformed into a wildernesse. Deciphered in characters
Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)
1634
Sometimes attributed to Richard Brathwait. Signatures: A26 B-I2122 (-A1). The last two leaves are blank.