The English secretorie. : VVherein is contayned, a perfect method, for the inditing of all manner of epistles and familiar letters, together with their diuersities, enlarged by examples vnder their seuerall tytles. In which is layd forth a path-waye, so apt, plaine and easie, to any learners capacity, as the like wherof hath not at any time heretofore beene deliuered. Nowe first deuized, and newly published, by Angell Daye.

At London : Printed by Robert Walde-graue, and are to be solde by Richard Iones, dwelling at the signe of the Rose and the Crowne, neere vnto Holburn Bridge, 1586.

[16], 228, 225-251, [1] p. ; (4to)

Leaf B2, which was intended to be cancelled because the last 2 lines of verse on the recto were offensive, is present in the Folger Library copy along with the cancel, which explains the omission--STC. Folger Library disagrees in that the 2 lines of verse are on the verso of leaf B2 cancelland.
Signatures: pi⁴ [par.]⁴ A⁴ B⁸(±B2) C-Q⁸ R⁴.
Another issue has author's name "Angel Daye" on title page and quire [par.] is signed 2*.
Stationers' register: Entered to Jones with Waldegrave's consent 7 November [1586].

NOT DUPES

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004-2005. Letterwriting in Renaissance England (catalog entry 11, 20)

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 6401
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S126195

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 6401

11/23/42. Manuscript marks. B2 cancelland present. Holes in I7, affecting text. Provenance: Sotheby sale of Ham House Library, Surrey, 30 May 1938:103; collated by E.M.D. [Dring] at Quaritch