1614 Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton antique in ENGLISH

COMMYNES, Philippe de The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton London: for John Bill; 1614 [16], 366 pages. Title within architectural woodcut border with royal arms above and crest of the dedicatee Lord Burghley atop a bee skep below. Beautiful woodcut initials. With genealogical tables on pages 349-366. English leather binding, both covers detached English version by Thomas Danett. -Ref. Not in Bibl. Belg. - Heraldic bookplate James Banks Stanhope Small folio. Size 7 1/3 by 11 1/3" Text in English Philippe de Commines (also Commynes or Comines; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 – 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called "the first truly modern writer" (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature). Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.