BARCKLEY RICHARD Sir The Felicitie of Man or His Summum Bonu

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BARCKLEY, RICHARD, Sir. The Felicitie of Man, or, His Summum Bonum. [18], 368, 367-526, 607-717, [17] pages, including engraved allegorical title and preceding leaf of explanatory text. 4to, 187x142 mm, disbound, book block split; marginal browning and dampstaining, paper corrosion along edges of first and last few leaves, clean tear across L1.8. London: R. Y. for Rich. Roystone, 1631

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Third edition of a 1598 work on human happiness comprising moralistic stories drawn mainly from classical authors. Jaggard, page 15 (citing it as a source for Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and Antony and Cleopatra); STC 1383.