Willobie his Auisa. Or the true picture of a modest maid, and of a chast and constant wife. : In hexamiter verse. The like argument wherof, was neuer hereto fore published. Read the preface to the reader before you enter farther.
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Willobie his Auisa. Or the true picture of a modest maid, and of a chast and constant wife. : In hexamiter verse. The like argument wherof, was neuer hereto fore published. Read the preface to the reader before you enter farther.
Created/published
Imprinted at London : By Iohn Windet, 1594.
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[8], 65 [i.e. 62] leaves ; (4to)
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Ostensibly edited by Dorrell from papers left by Henry Willoughby; thought to be the work of Dorrell himself, though the name is probably a pseudonym (see DNB under Willoughby).
Folio numbers 29-31 omitted in foliation.
Stationers' register: Entered 3 September [1594]
Signatures: *⁴ A-Q⁴ R².
Folio numbers 29-31 omitted in foliation.
Stationers' register: Entered 3 September [1594]
Signatures: *⁴ A-Q⁴ R².
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE jre: foll: [8], 28, 32-65 leaves; dedication to the reader signed "Hadrian Dorrel."; title within an ornamental woodcut border; colophon on R2v provides address: "London, Imprinted by Iohn Windet, dwelling at Pauls wharfe at the signe of the crosse Keyes and are there to be solde. 1594."
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), 25755
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 1068
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S101317
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 1068
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S101317
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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STC 25755 copy 1
Folger-specific note
cs0900. T.p. torn and backed, affecting border. Trimmed at fore-edges, affecting side-notes. Mottled sheepskin binding with two red goatskin labels on the spine; marbled end-papers; circular label pasted on front fly-leaf with manuscript "1131". Provenance: armorial bookplate of George Chalmers (motto "spero"); Britwell Court (pencilled shelf-mark "37. F. 36."); bought by Folger from Sotheby's Britwell sale, 6 Feb. 1922, lot 709
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STC 25755 copy 2
Folger-specific note
cs1957. Imperfect: lacking Q3-R2, supplied in facsimile. Trimmed at fore-edges, affecting some side-notes. Red goatskin binding with blind and gilt tooled panels and centerpieces, by Riviere & Son; marbled end-papers; all edges gilt. Provenance: armorial bookplate of Francis Longe (motto "sine cenere et baccho friget venus."); bookplate of John Camp Williams; bought by Folger from the J. C. Williams sale, Nov. 1929, lot 1189