"I Was driuen into a quandarie Gentlemen," says Lyly, "whether I might ſend this my Pamphlet to the Printer or to the pedler, I thought it too bad for the preſſe, & to good for the packe.... We commonly ſee the booke that at Eaſter lyeth bounde on the Stacioners ſtall, at Chriſtmaſſe to be broken in the Haberdaſhers ſhop, which ſith it is the order of proceeding, I am content this Summer to haue my dooinges read for a toye, that in Winter they may be readye for traſh.... Gentlemen vſe bookes as Gentlewomen handle theyr flowres, who in the morning ſticke th[~e] in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles. Cheries be fulſome when they be through ripe, becauſe they be plentie, and bookes be ſtale when they be printed in that they be common. In my minde Printers & Tailers are chiefely bound to pray for Gentlemen, the one hath ſo much fantaſies to print, the other ſuch diuers faſhions to make, that the preſſing yron of the one is neuer out of the fyre, nor the printing preſſe of the other any tyme lieth ſtill...." The address "To my verie good friends the Gentlemen Scholers of Oxford" first appeared with the second edition, to which Lyly made other additions, beside thoroughly revising the text. The title-page is bordered with a band of type-metal ornaments. Among the initial letters are several of a series, each letter of which represents a child at play. A large tail-piece is repeated several times, and East's mark of a black horse with a white crescent on his shoulder, and the motto _Mieulx vault mourir en vertu que vivre en Honcte_, is here used for the first time. Some copies dated 1581 have Rowland Hall's mark but no printer's name. Mr. Henry R. Plomer says of the book in an interesting article on our printer: "The preliminary matter is printed in a very regular fount of Roman, the text in his ordinary fount of Black Letter, and the whole book is distinguished for its clear, regular, and clean appearance." On July 24, 1579, the stationer Cawood entered for license a second part of _Euphues_, which he had promised at the end of this volume in the following words: "I Haue finiſhed the firſt part of Euphues whome now I lefte readye to croſſe the Seas to Englande, if the winde send him a ſhorte cutte you ſhall in the ſeconde part heare what newes he bringeth and I hope to haue him retourned within one Summer...." The book appeared the next year with the title: ¶_Euphues and his England. | Containing | his voyages and adventures, myxed with | ſundry pretie diſcourſes of honeſt Loue ... ¶ By Iohn Lyly, Maiſter | of Arte. | Commend it, or amend it. | By Imprinted at London for Gabriell Cawood, dwelling in | Paules Church-yard._ | 1580.