Dedicated to Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, this 1599 edition of Day’s manual teaches the Elizabethan art of the letter. It sorts epistles into descriptive, laudatory, deliberative, persuasive and dissuasive kinds, sets out forms of greeting, farewell and superscription, gives model letters for every occasion, and ends with a glossary of tropes and schemes marked in the margins.
A primary source for how Shakespeare’s contemporaries wrote to one another, in the original spelling. Download the free EPUB.