Military.- Dallington (Sir Robert) Aphorismes Civill and Militarie: Amplified with Authorities, and exemplified with Historie, out of the first Quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine, 2 parts in 1, first edition, titles with woodcut printer's device, first title first word xylographic and with engraved portrait of dedicatee Prince Charles verso, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial and final blanks, occasional light soiling, some water-staining and light browning, contemporary calf, old repairs to spine and joints but majority of original gilt backstrip now lost, rubbed, [STC 6197], small folio, [R. Field] for Edward Blount, 1613.

⁂ In 1609 Dallington presented Prince Henry with a manuscript 'Aphorismes civill and militarie', comprising pieces selected from the Italian historian Guicciardini. Following the prince's death in 1612 Dallington reworked these, which were published in 1613 with a new dedication to Prince Charles, later King Charles I.

Provenance: Teston Library (engraved bookplate).