The Paradice of Dainty Deuises. Containing sundry pithie precepts, learned Counsailes and excellent Inuentions: right pleasant and profitable for all estates Deuised and written for the most parte by M. Edwardes, sometime of her Maiesties Chappell: the rest by sundry learned Gentlemen both of Honor and Worship, whose names heer-after followe. Whereunto is added sundry new Inuentions, very pleasant and delightfull. At London Printed by Edward Allde for Edward White dwelling at the little North doore of Saint Paules Church, at the signe of the Gunne. Anno. 1596.
B. L. 4o. (71⁄4 × 43⁄4). S. 8. 1.
Collation: A-L4, unpaged. Wanting L 4 containing end of text and colophon. On the verso of the titlepage are 'The names of those who wrote these devices': Saint Bernard, E[dward Vere, Earl of] O[xford], Lord Vaux the Elder, W. Hunnis, Iasper Haywood, F. Kindlemarshe, D. Sande, M. Ylope. The collection went through many editions; this is apparently the seventh, the first having appeared in 1576.
Sinker 660. BM 519.
EDWARDS, Thomas.
The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary; The Trial of the Letter T, alias Y, and Sonnets. By Thomas Edwards, Esq; London: Printed for C. Bathurst, opposite St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street. M.DCC.LVIII.
8o. (8 × 51⁄4). P. 7.
Titlepage and advertisement on two leaves prefixed after the author's death in 1757. The original titlepage 'By the other Gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn.... The Sixth Edition, with Additions' follows, with the same date and imprint. First published as 'A Supplement to Mr. Warburton's Edition of Shakspeare' in 1747.
ELDER, John.
Historia Maioris Britanniæ, tam Anglię [quam] Scotię, per Ioannẽ Maiorem, nomine quidem Scotum, professione autem Theologum, c veterum monumentis concinnata. Vęnundatur Iodoco Badio Ascensio. [Colophon] Ex officina Ascensiana ad Idus Aprilis. MDXXI.
4o. (71⁄2 × 53⁄8). Q. 5. 2.