MINIATORE, Bartolomeo.
Formulario ottimo et elegante, ilquale insegna il modo del scriuere lettere messiue & respõsiue, cõ tutte le mansioni sue a li gradi de le persone conueneuoli. Et oltra di cio alcune nuoue & breuissime Orationi a diuersi Ambasciatori, de Prencipi attissime & necessarie, & di nuouo corrette. [Colophon] Stampato in Vinegia per Giouanni Andrea detto Guadagnino, & Florio fratello de Vauassere. Nel anno del nostro Signore. M D XLIIII.
8o. (51⁄2 × 33⁄4). Z. 7. 4.
Collation: A-F8, unpaged. 'Littera d'amore ... ad vna tua amorosa.' 'Proemio' from 'Bartholomeo miniator' to Hercole Estense (Ercole d'Este) duke of Ferrara. The first edition of the collection appeared in 1506, an enlarged one in 1531.
MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES.
A Mirrour for Magistrates. Wherein maye be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperity is founde, even of those whom Fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. Fælix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum. Anno. 1563. Imprinted at London in Fletestrete nere to Saynct Dunstans Churche by Thomas Marshe.
B.L. 4o. (71⁄4 × 51⁄4). R. 13.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: ⁌4A4B-N8O-V4X-Z8 2A-2B82C4, folios numbered. Epistle "To the Nobilitie" etc., signed William Baldwin. Prose address to the reader by the same. Part ii begins, with head-title, at sig. L 2, and another address to the reader by Baldwin. Table of contents and list of errata at the end. Part i had appeared in 1559; this second extant edition is the first containing Part ii. Part i contains nineteen legends; Part ii eight legends, besides Sackville's 'Induction' to his legend of Buckingham. The original edition of the 'Mirror' was printed by J. Wayland probably in 1554 or 1555 at the end of his edition of Lydgate's 'Falls of Princes'. The publication was stayed and the title only has survived. The first edition actually published was that of 1558, which contains Part i only. The contributors to the collection were William Baldwin (the editor), George Ferrers, Sir Thomas Chaloner,—— Caryl, and John Skelton, in Part i; George Ferrers, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset, Thomas Churchyard, Francis Segars, and John Dolman, in Part ii; while nine legends are anonymous. For the authorship of the individual legends, see Mr W. F. Trench's dissertation on the 'Mirror' (1898): the ascriptions given in the British Museum catalogue are mostly erroneous. In the later editions initials were frequently placed at the end of the legends to indicate the authorship, but in many cases they are wrong and in all want authority.
Sinker 310. BM 91.
A Myrrour for Magistrates, Wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, with howe greueous plagues, vyces are punished in great princes and magistrates, and how frayle and vnstable worldly prosperity is founde, where Fortune seemeth moste highly to fauour. Newly corrected and augmented. Anno 1571. Fœlix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum. Jmprinted at London by Thomas Marshe dwellynge in Fleetstreete, neare vnto S. Dũstanes Churche. [Colophon adds] 1571.