Collation: ¶-4¶⁴5¶²a-k⁴B⁴C-P⁸Q⁴S-Y⁸[bullet]⁴; S⁴V-Y⁸; A-B⁸; A-C⁸(D)²D², paged in part, folios numbered in part. Wanting 2¶4 and 5¶2 (? blank). Addresses, ‘To the reverende Deuines’, ‘To all young Gentlemen’ dated, ‘Waltamstowe in the Forest’ Feb. 2, 1575, and ‘To the Readers generally’. Commendatory verses from T. B., E. C., M. C., R. S., T. Ch., G. W., P. B., A. W., I. B., I. D., Richard Smith, M. A. Perugino (Italian prose), A. de B. (Fr.), and in Latin from H. M., B. C., K. D. (2 copies), W. P., G. H., E. H. The order of the works is as follows: ‘Flowers’ including ‘Dan Bartholomew of Barth’ and ‘The Fruits of war’; ‘Herbes’ including the plays ‘Supposes’ and ‘Jocasta’; ‘Weeds’ including ‘Ferdinando Jeronimi’; ‘The Steel Glass’ including ‘The Complaint of Philomene’; ‘The Princely Pleasures at Kenelworth Castle’, and ‘Certain notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or rime in English’. Of these the only one that has a regular titlepage is ‘The Steel Glass’, ‘Imprinted Ano. 1587.’ The ‘Complaint’ which follows bears the date 1576 without imprint. This is the third edition, the first being undated and the second having appeared in 1575. Some copies have a different titlepage reading ‘The pleasauntest workes’ etc. Sinker 670. BM 678. GELLI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. The Fearefull Fansies of the Florentine Cooper. Written in Tuscane, By Iohn Baptista Gelli, one of the free Studie of Florence. And for recreation translated into English by W. Barker. Pensoso d’ altrui. Seene & allowed according to the order appointed. _At London Printed by Tho. Purfoot, for the Companie of Stacioners._ 1599. =B. L.= 8^o. (5¼ × 3⅝). *. 8. 1. Collation: A-R⁸, folios numbered. Address to the reader. The head-title runs ‘The Reasoning of Iust the Florentine Cooper and his Soule. Gathered by his Nephew Sir Byndo.’ The first edition appeared in 1568, the present appears to be the second. Sinker 375. BM 683. GEOFFREY _of Monmouth_. Britannię vtriusqȝ Regũ Et Principium Origo & gesta insignia ab Galfrido Monemutensi ex antiquissimis Britannici sermonis monumentis in latinum traducta: _& ab Ascensio rursus maiore accuratione impressa. Vęnundantur in eiusdem œdibus._ [Colophon] _Ex œdibus nostris iterũ Ad Idus Septẽb. Anni_ .MDXVII. 4^o. (7½ × 5⅝). Q. 5. 1. Collation: 2A⁴A-M⁸N⁶; folios numbered. N 6 (? blank). Epistle dedicatory from the editor Ivo Cavellatus to Hervius Kaerquiffinennus dated, ‘Ex collegio nostro Corisopitensi ad Idus Iulias anni salutiferi. M.D.VIII.’ Commendatory verses, etc. Armorial woodcut on 2A 4^v. A note to the reader at the end is headed ‘Io. Badius Ascensius Lectori Sa.’ Ruled in red throughout. The first edition appeared in 1508. GEORGE, _Saint_.