Title within woodcut border. Collation: [bu]⁴A⁴B-N⁸O-V⁴X-Z⁸ 2A-2B⁸2C⁴, folios numbered. Epistle “To the Nobilitie” etc., signed William Baldwin. Prose address to the reader by the same. Part ii begins, with head-title, at sig. L 2, and another address to the reader by Baldwin. Table of contents and list of errata at the end. Part i had appeared in 1559; this second extant edition is the first containing Part ii. Part i contains nineteen legends; Part ii eight legends, besides Sackville’s ‘Induction’ to his legend of Buckingham. The original edition of the ‘Mirror’ was printed by J. Wayland probably in 1554 or 1555 at the end of his edition of Lydgate’s ‘Falls of Princes’. The publication was stayed and the title only has survived. The first edition actually published was that of 1558, which contains Part i only. The contributors to the collection were William Baldwin (the editor), George Ferrers, Sir Thomas Chaloner, ---- Caryl, and John Skelton, in Part i; George Ferrers, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset, Thomas Churchyard, Francis Segars, and John Dolman, in Part ii; while nine legends are anonymous. For the authorship of the individual legends, see Mr W. F. Trench’s dissertation on the ‘Mirror’ (1898): the ascriptions given in the British Museum catalogue are mostly erroneous. In the later editions initials were frequently placed at the end of the legends to indicate the authorship, but in many cases they are wrong and in all want authority. Sinker 310. BM 91. A Myrrour for Magistrates, Wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, with howe greueous plagues, vyces are punished in great princes and magistrates, and how frayle and vnstable worldly prosperity is founde, where Fortune seemeth moste highly to fauour. Newly corrected and augmented. Anno 1571. Fœlix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum. _Jmprinted at London by Thomas Marshe dwellynge in Fleetstreete, neare vnto S. Dũstanes Churche._ [Colophon adds] 1571. =B.L.= 4^o. (7½ × 5¼). R. 3. Title within woodcut border. Collation: *⁴A⁴B-V⁸X⁴, folios numbered. Epistle ‘To al the Nobility’ etc., signed W. B. Table of contents. Baldwin’s address to the reader. This is a reprint of the 1563 edition; the order of the legends is altered, and in many cases the authors’ names or initials appended. It is not divided into parts. In the Table appear legends of Duke Humphrey, and the Duchess of Gloucester, but they are not found in the book. One legend on these characters had similarly appeared in the Table in the 1559 edition. This is the third extant edition of the legends which originally formed Part i. Sinker 318. BM 91.