Inedited Tracts: Illustrating the Manners, Opinions, and Occupations of Englishmen During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Now First Republished from the Original Copies with a Preface and Notes: Cyuile and Uncyuile Life; The Seruingmans Comfort Hardcover - 1963

New York: Burt Franklin, 1963. Reprint of Hazlitt's 1868 edition of these three sixteenth/seventeenth century books on gentility & social status: Cyuile and uncyuile life. A discourse very profitable, pleasant, and fit to bee read of all Nobilitie and Gentlemen. London, 1579 [though Hazlitt uses the text of the 1586 version, titled The English Courtier, and the Cutry-gentleman], a dialogue debating the virtues of country versus city life; A Health to the Gentlemanly profession of Seruingmen: or, The Seruingmans Comfort: With other thinges not impertinent to the Premisses, ass well pleasant as profitable to the courteous reader. London, 1598, on the flourishing & decline of mettlesome servants, I think; and The Court and Country, or, a Briefe Discourse betweene the Courtier and Country-man; of the Manner, Nature, and Condition of their liues. London, 1618: two kinsmen debate the virtues of court life versus country life, with a catechism on necessary qualities of a courtier. All retain their original spelling and their florid style is difficult for modern readers. Includes a brief preface and 8-page Report on the "Roxburghe Library", the original publisher, intended to preserve & reissue old literature, a project of Hazlitt's; index, a few notes. Franklin's Research & Source Works Series #49; undated, but OCLC says 1963. Hardcover, as pictured. Book shows some wear, minor waterstain to edge of rear cover & last few pages, pages lightly tanned. Text clean; [2], vii, 218, 8 pages. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo.