1651 VENICE Travel Politics History 1st Ed English N/R

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S. P Q. V.A SURVAYOF THES I G N O R I EV E N I C E ,Of Her admired policy, and method of GOVERNMENT, &C.WITHA Cohortation to all Chriftian Princes to refentHer dangerous Condition at prefent. ________________________________By JAMES HOWELL Esq.________________________________L O N D O N,Printed for Richard Lowndes t the White Lionin S. Pauls Churchyard, neer the Weft end. M.DC.LI. [1651] ~ THE FIRST EDITION ~  Contemporary full sheep, recently rebacked, repaired tear to front board. A few small marks, generally very good clean condition. A folio volume, it measures approximately 29cm (11½") x 18.5cm (7¼") x 3cm (1¼").  Pagination pp. [8], 55, [3], 57-165, 168-184, 183-198, 175-210, [8], text collated and complete, portrait plate present, but lacking the allegorical plate.    JAMES HOWELL (c. 1594-1666), British C17 writer and historian who is in many ways an emblematic figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Howell, who became Bishop of Bristol. In 1613 he gained his B.A. from Jesus College, Oxford. He was a prolific writer and was one of the earliest Englishmen who made a livelihood out of literature. He wrote with a light pen and his pamphlets and his occasional verse exhibit exceptional faculty of observation, a lively interest in current affairs, and a rare mastery of modern languages, including his native Welsh. His attempts at spelling reform on roughly phonetic lines are also interesting.   Howell was the first writer of an Epistolary novel, the novel of letters, in the English Language.  In his Epistolæ Ho-elianæ: Familiar Letters, Domestic and Foreign, divided into Sundry Sections, partly Historical, Political, and Philosophical, his literary power is displayed at its best. Philosophic reflection, political, social, and domestic anecdote, scientific speculation, are all intermingled with attractive ease in the correspondence which he professes to have addressed to men of all ranks and degrees of intimacy. D.N.B. "Howell proposed Venice as a model for England by publishing in 1651 his Survay of the Signorie of venice, at a time when England was in a fluid and teporary state. Howell devotes a whole section to an elaborate description of venetian governmental institutions, and asserts that if one were to attempt to set up a stable, healthy government, 'the republic of Venice were the fittest pattern on earth both for direction and imitation."