Time's Store House., 1619,
Mexía,  Pedro de and Sansonvino,  Francesco

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| TIMES STORE-HOVSE | CONTAINING | The learned Collections, Juditious | Readings, and memorable Ob∫erua= | tions of sundry worthy Personages, | English, French, Italian, Spanish, | &c. vpon diuers Subiects as will ap= | peare by the seuerall heades in the | page following; all of them no le∫se v∫efull then | delight= | full. | WHEREVNTO | is annexed: | A ∫peciall Treati∫e of that kind of | NOBILITY which Soverayne GRACE, | and fauor, and Contryes Cu∫tomes, | haue made meerly POLITICALL | and peculiarly CIVILL (neuer ∫o | di∫tinctly handled before). | LONDON. | Printed by WILLIAM IAGGARD. | 1619. |

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| APXAIO-ΠΛOYTOΣ. | CONTAINING, | Ten following Bookes to the former | TREASVRIE | OF AVNCIENT AND | MODERNE TIMES. | [Line] | Being the Learned Collections, Iudicious Readings, | and Memorable Ob∫eruations: Not onely Diuine, Morall, and | Philo∫ophicall; But al∫o Poeticall, Martiall, Politicall, | Hi∫toricall, A∫trologicall, &c. | [Line] | Tran∫lated out of that Worthy Spani∫h Gentleman, PEDRO MEXIA, And | M. FRANCESCO SANSOVINO, that Famous Italian: As Al∫o, of | tho∫e Honourable Frenchmen, Anthony du Verdier, Lord of Vaupriuaz: | Loys Guyon, Sieur de la Nauche, Coun∫ellour vnto the King: | Claudius Gruget, Pari∫ian, &c. | [Line] | [Printer’s device] | [Line] | LONDON | Printed by WILLIAM IAGGARD, 1619. |
Notes on TP: The decorative title page's title is set in a beautiful engraved neo-classical, architectonic pedestal. At the top are the English coat of arms, 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE', flanked by two needles on pediments. Below is a cornice and a bigger pediment, with the winged male figure of PAX on the left hand side, wirting on a tablet: 'MAG | NVS LI | BERTATIS | THE | SAVRVS | NO | BILI | TAS". Opposite the female figure of NOBILITAS looks on, leaning on a lance and the panel on which the second part of the title appears. At her feet are the arms of the nobleman. At the bottom is the word LIBERTAS and at the top HONOR. The engraving is signed in the bottom right hand corner by 'Renold Elstracke sculp:'. The second title page follows a contents page and has a double-line border and Jaggard's device: a hand holding a staff with curling plants on either side and a portcullis on top with two chains with rings at the end. Around the hand is entwined a snake which forms an 'O'-shape, eating its own tail, in the middle of which is the word PRVDENTIA. It is identical to that of the previous text cf. Text ID no. 265.
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