The Scholemaster or plaine and perfite way of teaching children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate bringing vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by them selves, without a Scholemaster, in short time, and with small paines, recover a sufficient habilitie, to understand, write, and speake Latin. By Roger Ascham. An. 1571.At London: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, [1571][Bound with:]Ascham, Roger (1514/15-1568)Toxophilus, the schole, or partitions of shooting contayned in ij. bookes, vvritte[n] by Roger Ascham. London: In Fletestreate neare to Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe, 1571[Bound with:]Ascham, Roger (1514/15-1568)A Report and Discourse written by Roger Ascham of the affaires and state of Germany and the Emperour Charles his court, duryng certaine yeares while the said Roger was there. At London, Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, [ca. 1570]
London: Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, ca. 1570.
Price: $45,000.00
Truly excellent copies, all three texts clean and very fresh, with just a small, very light ink mark on the second title page. With John Day's woodcut printer's device at the end of the Schoolmaster. "Toxophilus" with fine woodcut title with grotesque caryatids. The binding is original limp vellum with...