4o. (71⁄8 × 51⁄4). R. 11. 2.

Collation: ¶4A-M4N2, paged. Wanting sheet ¶ of which the first leaf is blank, the second contains the titlepage and the rest the preliminary matter. Epistle dedicatory in Latin to Sir Roger Townshend, signed. Commendatory Latin verses signed S. Collins. 'Locustæ' in Latin hexameters. English version with separate titlepage at sig. D 2. 'The Locusts, or Apollyonists. By Phineas Fletcher of Kings Colledge in Cambridge. Printed by Thomas Bucke and Iohn Bucke, Printers to the Vniversitie of Cambridge. 1627.' Epistle dedicatory to Lady Townshend, signed P. F. Commendatory verses signed H. M. In 1902 Mr B. Dobell had a MS. of the Latin portion containing an unpublished dedication to Prince Henry. This version, which presented variations from the printed text, must therefore have been written before Nov. 1612.

BM 636.

FLORIO, John.

The Essayes ... of Lord Michael De Montaigne.... 1632. See Montaigne, Michel de.

A Worlde of Wordes, Or Most copious, and exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, collected by Iohn Florio. Printed at London, by Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount. 1598. [Colophon] Imprinted at London by Arnold Hatfield, for Edward Blunt: and are to be sold at his shop ouer against the great North dore of Paules Church. 1598.

Fo. (10 × 73⁄8). H. 3.

Title within ornamental border with initials C T. Collation: a6b4A-2P62Q4, paged. Wanting a 1 (blank save for sig.) and 2Q 4 (? blank). The original leaf S 2 has been cut out and another, presumably a cancel, placed in loose. Three columns on a page. Epistle dedicatory to Roger Earl of Rutland, Henry Earl of Southampton, and Lucy Countess of Bedford, signed. Address to the reader, signed. Dedicatory sonnets to the same persons as the epistle, each subscribed 'Il Candido'. Commendatory verses in English and Latin signed B. B. List of texts read for the compilation of the work. 'Il Candido' has been identified, on the authority of an old MS. note, with Matthew Gwinne, 'gwin' being the Welsh for white. 'B. B.' is supposed to have been Barnabe Barnes. First edition.

Sinker 665. BM 637.

FULWELL, Ulpian.

The first part of the eight liberall science: Entituled, Ars adulandi, the art of Flattery, with the confutation thereof, both very pleasant and profitable, deuised and compiled by Vlpian Fulwell.

His diebus non peractis,
Nulla fides est in pactis.