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Title
The cabinet-council : containing the chief arts of empire, and mysteries of state ; discabineted in political and polemical aphorisms, grounded on authority, and experience ; and illustrated with the choicest examples and historical observations / By the ever-renowned knight, Sir Walter Raleigh, published by John Milton--
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1957
JC393.C3 R2 1658s
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcw6634d90v
Publisher
London : Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Tho. Johnson, 1658
Language
English
Date Created
1658
Extent
[8], 199, [1] p. : front. (port.) ; 14 cm. (8vo).
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Bookplate of Alberto Stradelli.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 2 Gift of Hamilton Cottier, Class of 1922.
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
Wing R156
ESTC R8392
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
First edition, with prefatory note: To the reader [signed] John Milton.
Although Milton believed that the manuscript he edited was by Raleigh, the attribution is doubtful. Cf. William Riley Parker, "Milton", p. 516-517, and J. Shawcross, "Milton bibliography", 256.
Published in 1661 under title: Aphorisms of state, grounded on authority and experience : in 1692 under title: The arts of empire, and mysteries of state discabineted. For other issues under different titles cf. A bibliography of Sir Walter Raleigh knt. By T.N. Brushfield. 2d ed. 1908. [no. 268].
With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (plate), signed: Ro: Vaughan sculp:.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary quarter leather; paste paper boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Political science
Monarchy

Physical Characteristics

File Count
217

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
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