The Mirrovr of Mindes, or, Barclay s Icon animorum, Englished by T[homas] M[ay].

BARCLAY, JOHN.

Published by London: Printed by Iohn Norton for Thomas Walkley, and are to bee sold at his shop, at the signe of the Eagle and Child in Britaines-Burse, 1631.

About this Item

[xii], 322, [2], "223" [i.e. 224]pp., 12mo. With the initial blank leaf, this inscribed "Will Ffrankland" (see below), leaf Kk4 (so signed) is a cancellans, printed as Kk5 in the gathering along with a final blank leaf Kk6 (not present here), the stub of the original Kk4, the cancellandum, is visible. A very nice copy in nineteenth-century vellum, gilt spine label; covers a little grubby. Circular inkstamp of the Maynard Smith and Outram Smith Library, dispersed by Forum Auctions, with their small shelf-mark in white ink on the spine. First edition in English, first published in Latin in 1614 as Icon Animorum; the work is a series of satirical sketches of the characters of nations. The preface by the translator Thomas May notes that many of his book s prospective audience are "meere English Readers" and should not be deprived of Barclay, the "learned Author," who "with a sharpe and penetrating insight surueyed the difference of humane dispositions." STC 1399. "Will Ffrankland" was probably William Frankland, the English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629 and also in 1640.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mirrovr of Mindes, or, Barclay s Icon animorum, Englished by T[homas] M[ay].
• Publisher: London: Printed by Iohn Norton for Thomas Walkley, and are to bee sold at his shop, at the signe of the Eagle and Child in Britaines-Burse, 1631.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)