The enimie of idlenesse : teaching the maner and stile how to endite, compose and write all sorts of epistles and letters: as well by answer, as otherwise. Deuided into foure bokes, no lesse plesaunt than profitable. Set forth in English by William Fulwood marchant, &c. The contentes hereof appere in the table at the latter ende of the booke.

Stile et maniere de composer, dicter, & escrire toutes sortes d'epistres. English.

Imprinted at London : By Henry Bynneman, for Leonard Maylard, Anno 1568.

[6], 145, [7] leaves ; (8vo)

Chiefly a translation of the anonymous: Le stile et maniere de composer, dicter, & escrire toutes sortes d'epistres.
Book 4 is partly in verse.
Colophon reads: Imprinted at London, by Henry Bynneman, dwelling in Knightrider strete, at the signe of the Mermaide. For Leonard Maylerd. Anno. 1568.
Bodleian Library copy identified as STC 11477 on UMI microfilm reel 243.
Signatures: A-T⁸ V⁸(-V7,8)
Stationers' register: Entered 1566-67.

Signatures from DFo.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 09, 15)

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 11476
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S102757

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 11476

HH92/12. Blue morocco binding, gold-tooled and signed by Morley, Oxford.Outer corners of t.p. and some other leaves mended. Provenance: Sotheby sale, 19 July 1920:163; Harmsworth copy