The cabinet-council: containing the cheif [sic] arts of empire, and mysteries of state; discabineted in political and polemical aphorisms, grounded on authority, and experience; and illustrated with the choicest examples and historical observations. By the ever-renowned Knight, Sir Walter Raleigh, published by John Milton, Esq;

People / Organizations

• Walter Raleigh (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by Tho. Newcomb for Tho. Johnson at the sign of the Key in St. Pauls Churchyard, near the west-end, 1658.

Publication year

1658-1658

ESTC No.

R8392

Grub Street ID

128566

Description

[8], 199, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 8⁰

Note

Although Milton believed that the manuscript he edited was by Raleigh, the attribution is doubtful. Cf. William Riley Parker, "Milton", p. 516-517, and J. Shawcross, "Milton bibliography", 256.

"To the reader" signed: John Milton.

With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (plate), signed: Ro: Vaughan sculp:.Citation/references Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), R156

Brushfield, T.N. Bibliography of Sir Walter Raleigh, 268