A myrrour for magistrates. : Wherein maye be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperity is founde, even of those whom fortune seemeth most highly to fauour.
1563
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Title
A myrrour for magistrates. : Wherein maye be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperity is founde, even of those whom fortune seemeth most highly to fauour.
Uniform title
Mirrour for magistrates. Part 3.
Created/published
Anno. 1563. Imprinted at London : In Fletestrete nere to Saynct Dunstans Churche by Thomas Marshe, [1563]
Description
[6], clx [i.e. 168], [2] leaves ; (4to)
Associated name
Baldwin, William, approximately 1518-1563?
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.
Note
Anonymous. By William Baldwin and others.
In verse.
A continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum".
The first two parts of "A mirror for magistrates" were written by John Higgins and Thomas Blenerhasset respectively; this third part was in fact written before the others.
Signatures: [par.]⁴ A⁴(±A2) B-N⁸ O-U⁴ X-2B⁸ 2C⁴.
Numerous errors in foliation.
With a final contents leaf and a final errata leaf.
Page Aa1r exists in two settings; line 7 has (1) "dilingēce" or (2) "dilygence". Setting 2 is probably later (Folger Library catalogue).
Stationers' register: Entered 1562-63.
In verse.
A continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum".
The first two parts of "A mirror for magistrates" were written by John Higgins and Thomas Blenerhasset respectively; this third part was in fact written before the others.
Signatures: [par.]⁴ A⁴(±A2) B-N⁸ O-U⁴ X-2B⁸ 2C⁴.
Numerous errors in foliation.
With a final contents leaf and a final errata leaf.
Page Aa1r exists in two settings; line 7 has (1) "dilingēce" or (2) "dilygence". Setting 2 is probably later (Folger Library catalogue).
Stationers' register: Entered 1562-63.
ESTC staff note
Copy filmed is Huntington Library 60292
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 1248
Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies., 4(c)
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 731
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100551
Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies., 4(c)
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 731
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100551
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 1248 copy 1
Folger-specific note
HH145/28. Setting 2 of 2A1r. Provenance: signature of Ri: Candeler (Richard Candeler); bookplate of Bernard Edward, Duke of Norfolk; Howard family library - Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 1248 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs10. Bound in 19th-century goatskin, signed by Ramage. Setting 1. T.p. mounted; lacking 2C4, supplied in facsimile; top margins of A1, A2 (from another copy?), and 2C3 trimmed and replaced. Provenance: signature of John Parker on t.p.
Call number
STC 1248 copy 3
Folger-specific note
148570. Setting 1. Lacking gatherings [par] and A; the latter supplied probably from a copy of the 1559 edition. Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps copy