Speculum juventutis, or, A true mirror : where errors in breeding noble and generous youth, with the miseries and mischiefs that usually attend it, are clearly made manifest : as likewise remedies for every growing evil : protray'd to the life in the legend of Sisaras and Vallinda
1671
L2008F46 1671
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Title
Speculum juventutis, or, A true mirror : where errors in breeding noble and generous youth, with the miseries and mischiefs that usually attend it, are clearly made manifest : as likewise remedies for every growing evil : protray'd to the life in the legend of Sisaras and Vallinda
Variant Title
True mirror
Published
London Printed for Charles Smith, and Thomas Burrell, and are to be sold at their shops ..., 1671
Description
[16], 403, [5] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Call Number
L2008F46 1671
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37618861
Note
Signatures: *8 A-2B8 2C4
Publisher's advertisements at end
Half novel and half educational treatise, written in the from of a conversation or dialogue
Discourse on education with a narrative frame, in the hope that it "... may do more good to unruly youth, then more sowr and severe pieces of morality ... written by divines ..."--Cf. Dedication
"Book IV. Treating of such rules and maxims as are to be observed in the camp": based on author's own experiences as a soldier, offering such advice as: S2BEndeavour to get acquainted with the chief officers, honor and obey them, put yourself under their conduct, without too curiously inquiring what they mean to do &.S3 Band S2BWhen you march suffer no disorder in your quarter, nor make your self as terrible to the towns as a troop of tartars&.S3B; "Book VI. Treating of quarrels, and duels ..."; "Book VII. Treating of satisfaction, and the means to avoyd duels."
Armorial bookplate & ms. inscription: Paul Panton Esqr. Bagillt, Flintshire (descendant of the author); ms. note on front free endpaper
Library copy: some leaves cropped close with loss of catch words; leaf Q2 cropped last line of text, but still legible (photocopy in case file); a hole on leaf T7 affects a few letters
Publisher's advertisements at end
Half novel and half educational treatise, written in the from of a conversation or dialogue
Discourse on education with a narrative frame, in the hope that it "... may do more good to unruly youth, then more sowr and severe pieces of morality ... written by divines ..."--Cf. Dedication
"Book IV. Treating of such rules and maxims as are to be observed in the camp": based on author's own experiences as a soldier, offering such advice as: S2BEndeavour to get acquainted with the chief officers, honor and obey them, put yourself under their conduct, without too curiously inquiring what they mean to do &.S3 Band S2BWhen you march suffer no disorder in your quarter, nor make your self as terrible to the towns as a troop of tartars&.S3B; "Book VI. Treating of quarrels, and duels ..."; "Book VII. Treating of satisfaction, and the means to avoyd duels."
Armorial bookplate & ms. inscription: Paul Panton Esqr. Bagillt, Flintshire (descendant of the author); ms. note on front free endpaper
Library copy: some leaves cropped close with loss of catch words; leaf Q2 cropped last line of text, but still legible (photocopy in case file); a hole on leaf T7 affects a few letters
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