Angell Day, The English Secretary (1586)
Date
1586
Author
Angell
Day
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The English Secretorie. Wherein is contayned, A Perfect Method, for the inditing of all manner of Epistles and familiar Letters, together with their diuersities, enlarged by examples vnder their seuerall Tytles. In which is layd forth a Path-waye, so apt, plaine and easie, to any learners capacity, as the like wherof hath not at any time heretofore beene deliuered
Publication place
London
Printer
Robert Walde-graue
Publisher
Richard Iones
Transcription source
British Library 10920.c.3
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
rhetoric
Language
headwords: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: TOuching an Epistle, which usually we terme a letter, no other definition needeth therof, then that which vse and common experience hath induced vnto vs. A Letter therefore is that wherein is expressye conueied in writing, the intent and meaning of one man, immediately to passe and be directed to an other, and for the certaine respects thereof, is termed the messenger and familiar speeche of the absent: for that all occurrences whatsoeuer, are thereby as faythfully aduertized, pursued· and debated· as firmely might fall out in any personall presence or other wise to be remembred. (a1r)
sample: TOuching an Epistle, which usually we terme a letter, no other definition needeth therof, then that which vse and common experience hath induced vnto vs. A Letter therefore is that wherein is expressye conueied in writing, the intent and meaning of one man, immediately to passe and be directed to an other, and for the certaine respects thereof, is termed the messenger and familiar speeche of the absent: for that all occurrences whatsoeuer, are thereby as faythfully aduertized, pursued· and debated· as firmely might fall out in any personall presence or other wise to be remembred. (a1r)
Alston
VI.23
Schafer
1599 D
STC
6401
Other editions
1592: STC 6402 ("now corrected, refined & amended" to include a declaration of tropes, figures, and schemes; British Library);
1595: STC 6403;
1599: STC 6404 ("now newly reuised"; "slightly altered" according to Schäfer 1599 D);
1607-35: STC 6405, 6406, 6406.5, 6407, 6408
1595: STC 6403;
1599: STC 6404 ("now newly reuised"; "slightly altered" according to Schäfer 1599 D);
1607-35: STC 6405, 6406, 6406.5, 6407, 6408
Facsimiles
Day, Angel. The English Secretorie, 1586. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 29. Menston: Scolar Press, 1967.
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Day, Angel. The English secretary, or, Methods of writing epistles and letters; with, A declaration of such tropes, figures, and schemes, as either usually or for ornament sake are therein required (1599). Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1967. view record
Day, Angel. The English secretary, or, Methods of writing epistles and letters; with, A declaration of such tropes, figures, and schemes, as either usually or for ornament sake are therein required (1599). Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1967. view record
