A myrrour for magistrates : wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, with howe greueous plagues, vyces are punished in great princes and magistrates, and how frayle and vnstable worldly prosperity is founde, where fortune seemeth moste highly to fauour.
1571
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Title
A myrrour for magistrates : wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, with howe greueous plagues, vyces are punished in great princes and magistrates, and how frayle and vnstable worldly prosperity is founde, where fortune seemeth moste highly to fauour.
Uniform title
Mirrour for magistrates. Part 3.
Edition
Newly corrected and augmented. Anno 1571.
Created/published
Imprinted at London : By Thomas Marshe dwellynge in Fleetstreete, neare vnto S. Du[n]stanes Churche, [1571]
Description
[6], 128, 139-168 leaves ; (4to)
Associated name
Note
By William Baldwin and others. See leaf A1r.
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.
Leaves 139 and 140 misfoliated 140 and 141; numerous other errors in foliation.
The outer leaf of gathering D is in two settings: leaf D1r has in running title (1) "Folio. 19." or (2) "Fol. 19".
Signatures: *⁴ A⁴ B-U⁸ X⁴.
Colophon reads: Imprinted at London by Thomas Marsh, dwelling in Fleetstrete, neare vnto Sainte Dunstanes Churche. 1571.
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.
Leaves 139 and 140 misfoliated 140 and 141; numerous other errors in foliation.
The outer leaf of gathering D is in two settings: leaf D1r has in running title (1) "Folio. 19." or (2) "Fol. 19".
Signatures: *⁴ A⁴ B-U⁸ X⁴.
Colophon reads: Imprinted at London by Thomas Marsh, dwelling in Fleetstrete, neare vnto Sainte Dunstanes Churche. 1571.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
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), 1249
Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies., 4(d)
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 732
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100553
Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies., 4(d)
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 732
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S100553
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Call number
STC 1249 Bd.w. STC 13444
Folger-specific note
HH145/29.3. Setting 1. With: Higgins, J. The first parte of the mirour for magistrates. 1575 -- Blenerhasset, T. The seconde part of the mirrour for magistrates. 1578 (shelfmark 3131 copy 2). Provenance: initials 'K. E.' on verso of t.p. of first item in binding; inscriptions on back paste-down: 'Lot 515 Sotheby's 7-5-30' and pencilled Quaritch note; Harmsworth copy