Transcriber’s Notes
About this book: A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike was published in 1563. Only five copies of the original are known to exist. This e-book was transcribed from microfiche scans of the original in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. The scans can be viewed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France website at http://gallica.bnf.fr.
Typography: The original line and paragraph breaks, hyphenation, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, inconsistent use of an acute accent over ee, the use of u for v and vice versa, and the use of i for j and vice versa, have been preserved. All apparent [printer errors] have also been preserved, and are listed at the end of this document.
The following alterations have been made:
1. Long-s (ſ) is regularized as s.
2. The paragraph symbol, resembling a C in the original, is rendered as ¶.
3. Missing punctuation, hyphens, and paragraph symbols have been added in brackets, e.g. [-].
4. Except for the dedication, which is in modern italics, the majority of the original book is in blackletter font, with some words in a modern non-italic font. All modern-font passages are rendered in italics.
5. Incorrect page numbers are corrected, but are included in the list of [printer errors] at the end of this e-book.
6. Abbreviations and contractions represented as special characters in the original have been expanded as noted in the table below. “Supralinear” means directly over a letter; “sublinear” means directly under a letter. The y referred to below is an Early Modern English form of the Anglo-Saxon thorn character, representing th, but identical in appearance to the letter y.