Nennio, or a treatise of nobilitie. Wherein is discoursed what true nobilitie is, with such qualities as are required in a perfect gentleman / Written in Italian by that famous doctor and worthy knight, Sir John Baptista Nenna of Bari. Done into English by William Iones gent.

  • Nenna, Giovanni Battista, active 1542.
Date:
[1595]
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Publication/Creation

[London] : Printed by P[eter S[hort for Paule Linley, and Iohn Flasket, and are to be sold at their shop in Paules churchyard, at the signe of the blacke beare], [1595]

Physical description

6 leaves, 98 numbered leaves : woodcut coat-of-arms on verso of title page ; (4to)

Notes

Signatures: A⁶, B-Y⁴, Aa-Cc⁴, Dd²
Leaves printed on both sides; illustration verso t.-p.; initials; head and tail pieces; printer's device on t.-p
Numerous errors in paging
Issued in 1600 with a new title-page and without the dedications with title: A discourse whether a nobleman by birth, or a gentleman by desert is greater in nobilitie.- cf. B.M

References note

STC 18428
ESTC S103519
STC (2nd ed.), 18428

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    EPB/B/4525

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