Colophon on verso of X4 (1st count): Printed by Henrie Bynneman for Richarde Smith.

"[Henry] Middleton app[arently] pr[inted] 2nd A to the end."--STC (2nd ed.)

Errors in paging, including 37-44 (1st count) omitted in the numbering.

"Faultes escaped": verso of 3d prelim. leaf.

First edition; reprinted, with a few omissions and additions and with a different arrangement of the poems, in 1575 with title: The posies of George Gascoigne ...

The first part of this volume (A-X⁴) contains "The supposes" and "Jocasta". The first of these is Gascoigne's prose adaptation of Ariosto's comedy "Gli suppositi" and is the earliest extant comedy in English prose; from it Shakespeare probably derived the underplot for "The taming of the shrew". The "Jocasta" is a tragedy translated from Dolce (not adapted from Euripides, as pretended) by Gascoigne and Francis Kinwelmersh; it is the second earliest English tragedy in blank verse.

Signatures: A⁴, B⁴ (B1-2 cancelled), C-X⁴, A-Y⁴, Aa-Ii⁴ (Ii4 blank).

Variants are: line 3, p 445 reads "... they feede their fancies so." or "... they holde their fancies so."

STC (2nd ed.) 11635