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  Honour and vertue, triumphing over the grave Exemplified in a faire devout life, and death, adorned with the surviving perfections of Edward Lord Stafford, lately deceased; the last baron of that illustrious family: which honour in him ended with as great lustre as the sunne sets within a serene skye. A treatise so written, that it is as well applicative to all of noble extraction, as to him, and wherein are handled all the requisites of honour, together with the greatest morall, and divine vertues, and commended to the practise of the noble prudent reader. By Anth. Stafford his most humble kinsman. This worke is much embelish'd by the addition of many most elegant elegies penned by the most accute wits of these times.
  Date of publication:
  1640
  

  Author(s):

  Stafford, Anthony.
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  "Edward Lord Stafford" is an error for "Henry Lord Stafford". Includes verses by various authors. "Quires P-V may have been pr[inted]. by a different printer, possibly T. Cotes"--STC. With a preliminary errata leaf. Leaves ...
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  Staffords heauenly dogge: or The life, and death of that great cynicke Diogenes, whom Lertius stiles Canem Cœlestem, the heauenly dogge, by reason of the heauenly precepts he gaue Taken out of the best authors, and written to delight great hearts, and to raise as high as heauen the minds that now grouell on the earth, by teaching them how to ouercome all affections, and afflictions.
  Date of publication:
  1615
  

  Author(s):

  Stafford, Anthony.
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  The first leaf and the last four leaves are blank except for rule border on F9-10. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Lacking frontispiece. Beginning-p. 5 from the Bodleian ...
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  The femall glory: or, The life, and death of our Blessed Lady, the holy Virgin Mary, Gods owne immaculate mother to whose sacred memory the author dedicates these his humble endeavours. A treatise worthy the reading, and meditation of all modest women, who live under the government of vertue, and are obedient to her lawes. By Anth. Stafford, Gent.
  Date of publication:
  1635
  

  Author(s):

  Stafford, Anthony.
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  Running title reads: The femall glory, or, the life of the Virgin Mary. With a final colophon leaf; the last leaf is blank. B1 is printed on A4, original B1 is cancelled. Reproduction of the original in the University of ...
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  The day of salvation, or, A homily upon the bloody sacrifice of Christ, or his death and passion written, and intended onely for private meditation of a most noble and vertuous lady, on Good-Friday last, but since thought worthy the publique view / by Anthony Stafford ...
  Date of publication:
  1635
  

  Author(s):

  Stafford, Anthony.
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  Signatures: A¹²(-A1) B-G¹² H¹⁰. Errors in paging: numbers 114, 119-121 skipped in the pagination. Imperfect: engraved t.p. lacking; tightly bound, with slight loss of print. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  Staffords Niobe: or His age of teares A treatise no lesse profitable, and comfortable, then the times damnable. Wherein deaths visard is pulled off, and her face discouered not to be so fearefull as the vulgar makes it: and withall it is shewed that death is only bad to the bad, good to the good.
  Date of publication:
  1611
  

  Author(s):

  Stafford, Anthony.
  Description:
  Page 134 misnumbered 116. Considerable print show-through. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English.
  Date of publication:
  1612
  

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  Stafford, Anthony. and Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.
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  Signatures: A¹²(-A1,2) B-I¹² (last two leaves blank). Page 56 misnumbered as 57. Title in ornamental border. Errata: p. [20]. Imperfect: lacking p. 83-86; p. 74-97 from defective British Library copy spliced at end. ...
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  A synopsis or compendium of the fathers, or of the most famous and ancient doctors of the Church, as also of the schoolmen Wherein is clearely shewed how much is to be attributed to them, in what severall times they lived, with what caution they are to be read, and which were their perfections, which their errors. A treatise most necessary, and profitable to young divines, and delightfull to all such whose studies in humanity take from them the leisure, though not the desire of reading the fathers; whose curiosity this briefe surveigh of antiquity will in part satisfie. Written in Latin by that reverend and renowned divine, Daniel Tossanus, chiefe Professor of Divinity in the University of Heidelberge, and faithfully Englished by A.S. Gent.
  Date of publication:
  1635
  

  Author(s):

  Tossanus, Daniel, 1541-1602. and Stafford, Anthony.
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  A translation of: Synopsis de patribus. Translator's dedication signed: A.S., i.e. Anthony Stafford. Printer's name from STC. The first two leaves are blank. Running title reads: A synopsis or compendium of the fathers and ...
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  A wittie encounter betweene Monsieur du Moulin, and Monsieur De Balzac Esteemed two the most elegant pens of their nation. Wherein they deliver things weighty, and important both in religion and state. Faithfully translated out of the french (sic) coppy by A.S. Gent.
  Date of publication:
  1636
  

  Author(s):

  Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658. ; Stafford, Anthony. and Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.
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  A.S. = Anthony Stafford. Printer's name and translator's name from STC. Reproduction of the original in the Cambridge University Library.
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  The guide of honour, or the ballance wherin she may weigh her actions A discourse written (by way of humble advise) by the author then residing in forreigne parts, to a truely noble lord of England his most honour'd friend. Worthy the perusall of all who are gently or nobly borne, whom it instructeth how to carry themselves in both fortunes with applause and security. / By Antony Stafford, Gent.
  Date of publication:
  1634
  

  Author(s):

  Stafford, Anthony.
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  Printer's name from STC. With a final errata leaf. A variant of the edition with T. Slater as publisher in imprint. Identified as STC 23124 on reel 1009. Reproduction of the original in the University of Illinois ...
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