1679 The Gentile Sinner English Gentlemen’s Behavior Manual Clement Ellis OXFORD

1679 The Gentile Sinner English Gentlemen’s Behavior Manual Clement Ellis OXFORD

“The Gentile Sinner” is a 17^th-century book written by English poet Clement Ellis. This rather curious ‘self-help’ book was written to provide English men with instruction on how to live as a true gentleman – descriptions of his education, behavior in good fortune, his apparel and clothing, general character, living peaceful and prudently, and so much more.

Item number: #22913

Price: $750

ELLIS, Clement

The gentile sinner, or England’s brave gentleman character’d : in a letter to a friend: both as he is, and as he should be

Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, for Davis and Forrest, 1679.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [16], 260
• Provenance: Handwritten
  • Elisabeth Hobart, 1809
  • John Mann
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~5.5in X 3.5in (14cm x 9cm)
• quite scarce

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