Angell Day, The English Secretary (1592)

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Date

1592

Author

Angell Day Note: 30/09/2005

Lexicon title

A Declaration of all such Tropes, Figures or Schemes, as for excellencie and ornament in writing, are specially vsed in this Methode: Collected and explaned togethere, according to their applications, vsages and properties

Book title

The English Secretorie, Or, plaine and direct Method, for the enditing of all manner of Epistles or Letters, aswell Familliar as others: destinguished by their diuersities vnder their seuerall titles, The like whereof hath neuer hitherto beene published. Studiouslie, now corrected, refined & amended, in far more apt & better sort then before: according to the Authors true meaning, deliuered in his former edition: Togeather (also) with the second part then left out, and long since promised to be performed. Also, a declaration of all such Tropes, Figures or Schemes, as either vsually, or for ornament sake, are in this Method required. Finally, the partes and Office of a Secretorie, in like maner, amplie discoursed. All which to the best and easiest direction that may be, for young learners and practizers: are now, newlie, wholelie and ioyntly published

Edition

2nd

Publication place

London

Publisher

Richard Jones

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

rhetoric

Summary

The third part, on tropes, appears first in this second edition (Schäfer 1599 D)

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

m2r-p3v

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: A Figure, is a certayne meane wherby from a simple and ordinary kinde of speaking, we growe into a more cunning and excellent deliuery. A Figure is deuided into Trope and Scheme. (m3r)

Schafer

1599 D

STC

6402