The contemplation of mankinde : contayning a singuler discourse after the art of phisiognomie, on all the members and partes of man, as from the heade to the foote, in a more ample maner than hytherto hath beene published of any. In the place next after the chapter of the forehead, hath the phisiognomer added a proper treatise of the signification of sundrie lines seene in most mens foreheads: which in sundrie disputations with a skilfull Iew, he at the last obtayned. ... In the ende is a little treatise added of the signification of moles ... written by a worthie Grecian named Melampus. All which, englished by Thomas Hyll.

Author/creator Hill, Thomas
Other author Cocles, Bartolommeo della Rocca, 1467-1504.
Other author Malampus, 3rd cent. B.C.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Imprinted at London : By [Henry Denham for] William Seres, dwelling at the west ende of Paules Church, at the signe of the Hedgehogge], 1571.
Description[16], 208, 109-132, 233-236 [i.e. 244] leaves : ill. (woodcuts), port.
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Variant title Pleasaunt discourse of phisiognomie.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteA greatly enlarged version of Hill's 1556 translation of "Chyromantie ac physionomie anastasis" by Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles, in which these woodcuts first appeared. The work by Malampus is "Peri elaiōn sōmatos".
General noteOstensible printer's name and address from colophon; actual printer's name from STC.
General noteIncludes a bibliography of Hill's works.
General noteThe first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "[par.].j.".
General noteQuires B and C have numbered leaves interleaved with unnumbered.
General noteRunning title reads: A pleasaunt discourse of phisiognomie.
General noteIdentified as STC 17787 on UMI microfilm reel 287.
General noteReproductions of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (same copy filmed twice).
References STC (2nd ed.) 13482.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 287:07, 511:04)
Other title Chyromantie ac physionomie anastasis.
Other title Peri elaiōn sōmatos. English.
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