The first edition of one of the most important of all English courtesy books. This is the first issue, before the addition of the section “Three Choice Characters of Marriage” at the end.
“Although his prolific output has not gained much critical or popular attention since his lifetime, Brathwaite's œuvre is of growing importance as evidence of a gentleman's literary activity in the seventeenth century as well as of particular approaches to social and political issues”. - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
The dictionary credits him with the earliest use [1613] of the word ‘computer’, meaning an arithmetician.
ESTC S104636 ( Newberry/Courtesy Books 207)