So in the Catalogue of W. H. Holyoak, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester, “March 1888,” no. 10: the copy was sold on Jan. 3, 1890 to the rev. Shaw Urmstone of Manchester.

1598.

P. [44]. After Butler add:—

Butler, Charles. RHETORICÆ | LIBRI DVO. | Qvorvm | Prior de Tropis & Figuris, | Posterior de Voce & Gestu | Praecipit. | IN VSVM SCHOLA-|rum accuratiùs editi. | * * * *
*   * | * *
* | [motto, then woodcuts.]

Impr. 11: 1598: (eights) 16o: pp. [112], signn. ¶4 A-F8 G4: sign. B 1r beg. sus, vivus: Pica Roman. Contents:—sign. ¶1v, title: ¶2r-3r Epistola dedicatoria to lord Thomas Egerton, dated “Oxon. 16. Calend. Decemb. [16 Nov.], 1598”: ¶3v-4v, “Ad Lectorem”: A 1r-G 3r, the work: G 4 I have not seen.

Very rare: the only copy at present known is in Corpus Christi Library at Oxford. Even Wood (Ath. Oxon., iii. 210) had not seen this first edition, since he implies that the date is 1600. See 1600 B, 1618 B, 1629 B.

1598 and 1599.

Pp. [44], [46].

The article Lomazzo has been inserted under 1599 instead of 1598, the proper year.

1599.