An edition of The mirour for magistrates (1587)

The mirour for magistrates

wherein 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 additions of diuers tragedies enlarged.
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An edition of The mirour for magistrates (1587)

The mirour for magistrates

wherein 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 additions of diuers tragedies enlarged.
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Language
English
Pages
272

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Edition Notes

LC copy has bookplate of The Honble. P. Ashburnham.
STC (2nd ed.) 13445
Originally planned by William Baldwin and others as a continuation of Lydgate's Fall of princes. This ed., edited by John Higgins, contains in one chronological series, 74 tales in verse, combining the ones published by Baldwin in 1559 and 1563 (covering 1387-1496) with the First parte added by Higgins in 1574 (on the earlier legendary period). Higgins has largely rewritten his part, extended it to 219 A.D., and made additions to Baldwin's.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ ²A-²C⁸ D-Y⁸ ³A-³C⁸ 2D-2M⁸.
Includes Thomas Sackville's Induction (leaves 205-213).

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At London
Genre
Sources., Poetry.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR2199 .M5 1587

The Physical Object

Pagination
[12], 272 leaves (first leaf blank) ;
Number of pages
272

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6679005M
LCCN
25013053

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