Richard Brathwaite, (c 1588-1673)
The English Gentleman and Gentlewoman, Richard Braithwaite’s book published in 1641, was basically a guide to what was acceptable behaviour. It wasn’t a small book. As the author said in his introduction: “I had purposed that this work should have been digested into a portable volume, to the end it might bee more familiar with a Gentleman’s pocket, not to pick it, but that hee might picke some good from it: But since the Volume would not beare it, you must with patience beare with it, and with more trouble beare it, by inlarging your pocket to contain it.”
“Art aims to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”– Aristotle
