Author: LING (Nicholas). [BROOKS (Jonathan), editor:
Title: Antiquity; or the Wise Instructer [sic]. Being a Collection of the most Valuable Admonitions and Sentences, Compendiously put together, From an infinite Variety of the most celebrated Christian and Heathen Writers, Divine, Moral, Historical, Poetical, and Political./
Description: Bristol: Printed for J. Brookes, the Editor, By S. Farley..., 1770 FIRST BROOKS EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 178 x 111 mms., pp. xxvi [xxvii - xxviii Contents, 324, including list of subscribers, contemporary quarter continental sheepskin, marbled boards; all before title-page removed, joints and corners a little worn, top and base of spine chipped. With the autograph, c. 1803, of John Oldfield or J. Oldfield on the title-page and the front paste-down end-paper. Brooks describes himself as editor in the imprint, but the work was originally published in 1598, if not earlier, as Politeuphuia and attributed variously to Nicholas Ling or John Bodenham. ESTC T76494 locates copies in BL (3), Bristol Central, Cambridge, Manchester, National Library of Wales, Bodleian; McMaster, Chicago, Michigan, and Texas,

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