This copy wants, besides the blank, the titlepage and the last leaf of text. These have been supplied in MS. by Capell. The copy contains a large number of analytical notes in an early hand. It has also been carefully collated throughout by Capell with the subsequent edition of 1602 and the results entered in red ink. The edition of 1602 is also in quarto, but somewhat more closely printed so as to get the whole into eleven sheets, and has the following titlepage: ‘Nosce teipsum. This Oracle expounded in two Elegies. 1. Of Humane knowledge. 2. Of the Soule of Man, and the immortalitie thereof. Newly corrected and amended. London, Printed by Richard Field for Iohn Standish. 1602’. (BM 453.) Nosce Teipsum. This Oracle expounded in two Elegies. 1. Of Humane Knowledge. 2. Of the Soule of Man, and the immortalitie thereof. Hymnes of Astræa in Acrosticke Verse. Orchestra, or, A Poeme of Dauncing. In a Dialogue betweene Penelope, and one of her Wooers. Not finished. _London, Printed by Augustine Mathewes for Richard Hawkins, and are to be sold at his Shop in Chancery Lane, neere Serieants Inne._ 1622. 8^o. (6⅜ × 4¼). X. 1. Collation: A-L⁴, unpaged. Wanting A 1 and L 4 (? blank). Dedicatory verses ‘To my most gracious dread Soveraigne’ (_i.e._ Queen Elizabeth) signed by the author Iohn Davies. ‘Astrea’ and ‘Orchestra’ have each a separate titlepage bearing the same date. Fifth edition. ‘Astræa’ was added in the fourth edition, 1619; the ‘Orchestra’ first appeared in the present edition, which was the last issued during the life of the author. BM 453. DAVIES, JOHN, _of Hereford_. Microcosmos. The Discouery of the Little World, with the government thereof. Manilius. An mirum est habitare Deum sub pectore nostro? Exemplumq; Dei quisq; est sub imagine paruâ. By Iohn Davies. _At Oxford, Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to bee solde in Fleetestreete at the signe of the Turkes head by Iohn Barnes._ 1603. 4^o. (7¼ × 5⅜). R. 12. 1. Collation: A-2O⁴2P², paged. Dedicatory verses to King James and to the Queen, both signed. Five copies of verses by Davies. Commendatory verses signed: Io. Sanfordus (Lat.), Robertus Burhillus (Lat.), N. Debillus (Lat.), Iohn Iames (Lat. and Eng.), T. R. (Lat.), Douglas Castilion (one copy unsigned), Charles Fitz-Ieffry (one copy unsigned), Nicholas Deeble, Nathanael Tomkins (Lat.), and the author’s brother Richard Davies. Verse Preface to the King, signed. Verses to the Prince of Wales, signed. ‘Microcosmus’ is followed by ‘An Extasy’; both are in verse. Sonnets and poems by Davies. Commendatory verses from N. Deeble and Ed. Lapworth (Lat.). BM 452. DEKKER, THOMAS.