1689 Osborne on Queen Elizabeth & King James I Ottomans Turks Advice to Son 4in1

1689 Osborne on Queen Elizabeth & King James I Ottomans Turks Advice to Son 4in1

Francis Osborne was a 17^th-century English essayist known for his “Advice to a Son”. Many of Osborne’s works were responses to or theories on politics and philosophy. In ‘Advice to a Son’, Osborne wrote a controversial warning against women in a provocative and atheistic manner. While the works of Osborne were quite popular amongst readers, not all critics felt the same. Samuel Johnson, for one, was less than impressed. According to Lowndes,

“[The Works of Osborne, 1673], frequently reprinted, are now in little estimation. The author, Dr. John styled ‘A Conceited fellow.’ Were a man to write so now, the boys would throw stones at him.”

This 1689 printing of “The Works of Francis Osborne” includes ‘Advice’ but also includes ‘Political Reflections of the Turks’, ‘Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth and King James’, and other miscellaneous essays and letters.

Item number: #24426

Price: $750

OSBORN, Francis

The Works of Francis Osborne, … divine, moral, historical, political, in four several tracts … 1. Advice to a son … 2. Political reflections on the government of the Turks … 3. Memoires on Q. Elizabeth and K. James. 4. A miscellany of essays, paradoxes, problematical discourses, letters, characters ….

London : Printed, and are to be sold by the Booksellers, 1689.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [12], 628
• References: ESTC R9538; Arber Term Cat. I.122; Lowndes 1735
• Provenance: Handwritten
  • Mary Sutton
  • Will Atkinson, 1692
  • Watson
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7.5in X 4.75in (19cm x 12cm)

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