B.L. 4o. (71⁄2 × 51⁄4). R. 3.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: *4A4B-V8X4, folios numbered. Epistle 'To al the Nobility' etc., signed W. B. Table of contents. Baldwin's address to the reader. This is a reprint of the 1563 edition; the order of the legends is altered, and in many cases the authors' names or initials appended. It is not divided into parts. In the Table appear legends of Duke Humphrey, and the Duchess of Gloucester, but they are not found in the book. One legend on these characters had similarly appeared in the Table in the 1559 edition. This is the third extant edition of the legends which originally formed Part i.
Sinker 318. BM 91.
The first parte of the Mirour for Magistrates, containing the falles of the first infortunate Princes of this lande: From the comming of Brute to the incarnation of our sauiour and redemer Iesu Christe. Ad Romanos. 13. 2. Quisquis se opponit potestati, Dei ordinationi resistit. Imprinted at London by Thomas Marshe. Anno. 1574. Cum Priuilegio.
B.L. 4o. (73⁄4 × 51⁄2). Q. 10. 1.
Title within woodcut border. Collation: *6A-I8K2, folios numbered. Table of contents. Epistle 'To the nobilitie' etc., signed by the author, Iohn Higgins. Prose address to the reader by the same. This is an entirely new work, dealing with the early history and therefore entitled the 'First Part'. It contains seventeen legends, one being added at the end which is not among the sixteen mentioned in the Table. The former 'Mirror' was reprinted in this year, one legend enlarged, as 'The Last Part' etc. This 'First Part' was reprinted, slightly enlarged, the following year; also with 'The Last Part'.
Sinker 322. BM 813.
The Mirour for Magistrates, wherin may bee seene, by examples passed in this Realme, with how greeuous plagues vices are punished in great Princes and Magistrates, and how fraile and vnstable worldly prosperity is found, where Fortune seemeth most highly to fauour: Newly imprinted, and with the addition of diuers Tragedies enlarged. At London in
Fleetestreete, by Henry Marsh, being the assigne of Thomas Marsh. 1587. Cum Priuilegio.
B. L. 4o. (7 × 51⁄4). S. 5.
Title within ornamental border. Collation: A-C4A-2M8 (omitting Z), folios numbered. Wanting A 1 (? blank). Higgins' epistle 'To the Nobility' etc. as in 1574, but here dated, Winceham, December 7, 1586. Higgins' address to the reader, and table of contents. Commendatory verses by Thomas Newton, dated 1587. 'The Authors Induction.' Baldwin's address to the reader at sig. O4v. This edition consists of Higgins' and Baldwin's collections ('First' and 'Last Part') together. It is the first edition in which the two parts are really incorporated into one whole, with signatures continuous and a common Table of Contents. It is enlarged from the edition of 1575 by the addition of twenty-three legends to Higgins' part, and seven to Baldwin's, making a total of seventy-four, Sackville's 'Induction' being here for the first time counted as a separate legend.
Sinker 678. BM 814.