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The book was originally (1550) printed together with Erasmus’s TheEducation of Children. The introduction (1961) mentions Erasmusbriefly; the Index refers only to Sherry’s Treatise. Since thetwo texts have no connection except that Sherry is assumed to be thetranslator of the Erasmus essay, they have been made into separatee-texts.
Introduction (1961)
Contents (1961)
Main Text
Index (1961)
Transcriber’s Notes
A TREATISE
OF SCHEMES AND TROPES
(1550)
BY
RICHARD SHERRY
AND HIS TRANSLATION OF
THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
BY
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
A FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND INDEX
BY
HERBERT W. HILDEBRANDT
The University of Michigan
Gainesville, Florida
SCHOLARS’ FACSIMILES & REPRINTS
1961
SCHOLARS’ FACSIMILES & REPRINTS
118 N.W. 26th Street
Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.
Harry R. Warfel, General Editor
REPRODUCED FROM A COPY IN
AND WITH THE PERMISSION OF
BODLEIAN LIBRARY
Oxford
L.C. Catalog Card Number:61-5030
MANUFACTURED IN THE U.S.A.
LETTERPRESS BY J. N. ANZEL, INC.
PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY BY EDWARDS BROTHERS
BINDING BY UNIVERSAL-DIXIE BINDERY
INTRODUCTION
Richard Sherry’s A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes (1550),a familiar work of the Renaissance, is primarily thought of as asixteenth-century English textbook on the figures. Yet it is also amirror of one variation of rhetoric which came to be called the rhetoricof style. As a representative of this stylistic school, it offers littlethat is new to the third part of classical rhetoric. Instead, it carriesforward the medieval concept that ornateness in communication isdesirable; it suggests that figures are tools for achieving thisornateness; it supplies examples of ornateness to be imitated in writingand speaking; it supports knowing the figures in order to understandb