De republica Anglorum

Smith, Sir Thomas. De Republica Anglorum: The Manner of Governement or Police of the Realme of England. 1st ed. London: Printed by Henrie Midleton for Gregorie Seton, 1583. Written in 1565 and first published in 1583, De Republica Anglorum immediately became an influential work on the nature of politics and constitutional law in Elizabethan England. Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577) compares the government of England with those of other countries such as France, Italy, Germany and Spain, describing in some detail the various governmental institutions in England. One of the first treatises in comparative politics, it was published in eleven English editions and four Latin over the course of the next century. Pages 24 and 25 of Sir Thomas Smith's De Republica Anglorum, 1583, with previous owner's marginalia and underlining available as an additional file below.