Henry Peacham the elder, The Complete Gentleman (1622)
Date
1622
Author
Book title
The Compleat Gentleman Fashioning him absolute in the most necessary Commendable Qualities concerning Minde or Bodie that may be required in a Noble Gentleman
Publication place
London
Publisher
Francis Constable
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcription
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- art
- cosmography and astrology
- education
- geography
- heraldry
- history
- mathematics
- music
- poetry
- travel
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: The word Blazon is from the French Emblasonner; and note that we in England vse herein the same tearmes of Art with the French: because the ancients of our Nobility for the greater part, acknowledge themselues to bee descended out of Normandy, and to haue come in with the Conquerour, many retaining their ancient French names, & Charges vnto this day; as Beauchamp, Beaumont, Sacuill, Neuill, with many others. (p. 142)
sample: The word Blazon is from the French Emblasonner; and note that we in England vse herein the same tearmes of Art with the French: because the ancients of our Nobility for the greater part, acknowledge themselues to bee descended out of Normandy, and to haue come in with the Conquerour, many retaining their ancient French names, & Charges vnto this day; as Beauchamp, Beaumont, Sacuill, Neuill, with many others. (p. 142)
Schafer
1622P, 1602T, 1607S
STC
19502
Other editions
1627: STC 19503;
1634: STC 19504;
1661: Wing P943
1634: STC 19504;
1661: Wing P943
Facsimiles
Peacham, Henry. The Compleat Gentleman. The English experience, no. 59. Amsterdam and; New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1968.
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Modern editions
Peacham, Henry. The Complete Gentleman, The Truth of Our Times, and The Art of Living in London. Ed. Virgil B. Hettzel. Folger Documents of Tudor and Stuart Civilization. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press for the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1962.
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Peacham, Henry. Compleat Gentleman, 1634. Ed. G. S. Gordon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906. view record
Peacham, Henry. Compleat Gentleman, 1634. Ed. G. S. Gordon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906. view record
