The garden of eloquence,. conteining the most excellent ornaments, exornations, lightes, flowers, and formes of speech, commonly called the figures of rhetorike. By which the singular partes of mans mind, are most aptly expressed, and the sundrie affections of his heart most effectuallie vttered. Manifested, and furnished vvith varietie of fit examples, gathered out of the most eloquent orators, and best approued authors, and chieflie out of the holie Scriptures. Profitable and necessarie, as wel for priuate speech, as for publicke orations.
Henry Peacham (1546-1634)
Category
Books
Date
1593
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3174572
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 199, [1] p. :. ill. (woodcuts) ;. 4to. Imperfect: titlepage and two final leaves torn, with some loss of text, particularly on final leaf. Seventeenth-century manuscript note on flyleaf. Binding: half red morocco; cloth over boards.
Makers and roles
Henry Peacham (1546-1634)