Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
De repvblica Anglorvm : the maner of gouernement or policie of the realme of England, compiled by the honorable man Thomas Smyth, Doctor of the ciuil lawes, Knight, and principall secretarie vnto the two most worthie princes, King Edwarde the sixt, and Queene Elizabeth. Seene and allowed.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.2207
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcpk02cn11p
Publisher
At London : Printed by Henrie Midleton for Gregorie Seton, 1583.
Language
English
Date Created
1583
Extent
[4], 119, [1] p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 inscribed (17th cent.) on title page 'Maur[ice] Johnson'
Princeton copy 1 from the collection of Robert S. Pirie, Sotheby's NY, 2 Dec. 2015, lot 753 (bookplate on front pastedown)
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC, S117628
STC (2nd ed.), 22857
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Entered to J. Day 17 January 1581; to G. Seton 2 January 1584.
In black letter.
Most later editions published under title: The common-wealth of England.
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy has contemporary mss. annotations.

Discovery Information

Subject
Constitutional law—Great Britain—Early works to 1800
Great Britain—Politics and government—Early works to 1800
Annotations

Physical Characteristics

File Count
135

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8a6e6da4-23c2-493c-9378-fc77409cb704/manifest