1622 FAMED Compleat Gentleman Peacham Fishing War Philosophy Heraldry Chivalry

1622 FAMED Compleat Gentleman Peacham Fishing War Philosophy Heraldry Chivalry

Henry Peacham was a 17^th-century English writer who is known solely for his book ‘The Compleat Gentleman’. First published in 1622, this work was Peacham’s directions for young men and their artistic and scholarly endeavors. Notable topics covered in this work include poetry and music, nobility and dignity, painting and drawing, exercise, military knowledge, fishing, cosmography, and duty to parents among many other topics.

Item number: #24436

Price: $2500

PEACHAM, Henry

The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities, concerning mind, or body, that may be required in a person of honor

London: Francis Constable 1622 1^st edition

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [12], 211 (i.e., 213), [1]
  • 31 woodcut engravings, plus engraved title page
• References: Wing P 943; STC 19502
• Provenance:
  • Bookplate – Peter Stewart Young
  • Armorial bookplate – Sir Wyndham Knatchbull Bar^t.
    • Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham, 6th Baronet (1737–1763) was a British baronet and Whig politician. Motto: IN CRUCIFIXA GLORIA MEA
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~7.25in X 5.75in (18.5cm x 14cm)
  • Exceedingly rare, valuable, and desirable

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