Staffords Niobe: or His age of teares. The first part. A treatise no lesse profitable and comfortable, then the times damnable. VVherein deaths visard is pulled off, and her face discouered not to be so fearefull as the vulgar makes it: and withall it is shewed, that death is onely bad to the bad, good to the good.

Staffords Niobe: or His age of teares. The first part. A treatise no lesse profitable and comfortable, then the times damnable. VVherein deaths visard is pulled off, and her face discouered not to be so fearefull as the vulgar makes it: and withall it is shewed, that death is onely bad to the bad, good to the good.

The second edition; newlie corrected & amended.

Printed at London : By Humfrey Lownes [for Mathew Lownes], 1611.

[24], 202; [26], 263, [1], 42, [6] p. ; (12mo)

The first leaf is blank.

"Staffords Niobe, dissolv'd into a Nilus" has separate pagination and title page with imprint "Printed at London by H.L. for Mathew Lownes. 1611.". Within this register, "An admonition to a discontented Romanist" (caption title) begins new pagination.

Leaves ²A3-6, containing a dedication to Anne Clifford Sackville, Countess of Dorset, are cancelled. Variant: with these leaves present.

Signatures: A-I¹² K⁶; A¹² [par.]⁶ B-O¹².

With a final errata leaf; the last two leaves are blank.

Stationers' register: Pt. 2 entered 10 October [1611]

Blanks from F.S. Ferguson notes.
Signatures from DFo.

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 23130
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S117764

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 23130 copy 1

HH195/35. HH195/38. Variant. Lacking blanks, and ¹A12, ²A1, [par.]6 (all blanks). Provenance: William Maskell - Huth Library - Harmsworth copy

STC 23130 copy 2

HH195/36. HH915/37. Lacking blanks, and ¹A12, ¹K6, ²A1, (all blanks); most of A3 cut away; M12 damaged, affecting text; A2-3 and A10-11 from another copy. Provenance: Harmsworth copy