Collation: AB⁴C-H⁴I²K-2L⁴2M², paged. Wanting AB 1 and 2M 2 (? blank). Epistle dedicatory to William Cecill, Lord of Burghley, signed R. F. (_i.e._ Richard Field) and dated May 28, 1589. Woodcut portrait of Q. Elizabeth with the legend ‘A colei Che se stessa rassomiglia & non altrui’. The further legend ‘Elizabetha D. G. Regina’ is impressed in blind round the head. Table of contents at end. Attributed to George Puttenham. One copy in the BM differs from all others known in having an extra sheet signed i-iiii inserted between sheets N and O, the setting of the adjoining pages being rearranged to connect with the insertion. Sinker 736. BM 581. RALEIGH, _Sir_ WALTER. The Historie of the World. In five bookes. 1 Intreating of the Beginning and first Ages of the same, from the Creation unto Abraham. 2 Of the Times from the Birth of Abraham, to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon. 3 From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon. 4 From the Reigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome, in the Race of Antigonus. 5 From the settled rule of Alexanders Successors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made Conquest of Asia and Macedon. By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight. [Portrait.] [Colophon] _London, Printed for G. Latham, and R. Young._ M. DC. XXXIV. F^o. (13⅛ × 8¾). B. 1. Collation: 3 leaves unsigned, A-B⁶C⁴a⁶b⁸; A-V⁶2A-2V⁶3A-3V⁶ 4A-4V⁶5A-5Z⁶; (a)⁶(aa)⁶(*)⁶(**)⁸, paged. The three preliminary leaves contain verses headed ‘The Mind of the Front,’ engraved titlepage, signed Ren. Elstrack, with imprint ‘At London Printed for Walter Burre. 1614’, and printed titlepage with engraved portrait of the author signed Sim: Pass. Preface. Table of contents. Several two-page engraved maps and plans inserted. At the end, address to the reader, chronological tables, alphabetical table to Books i and ii, and to Books iii-v. The first edition appeared in 1614, and the engraved titlepage was used in several subsequent ones. There were at least two before the present. BM 1284. RETURN FROM PARNASSUS. The Returne from Pernassus: Or The Scourge of Simony. Publiquely acted by the Students in Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge. _At London Printed by G. Eld, for Iohn Wri¦ght,¦ and are to bee sold at his ¦shop at¦ Christ church ¦Gate.¦_ 1606. 4^o. (6⅞ × 5). S. 33. 1. Collation: A-H⁴I², unpaged. Prologue. Personae. Wanting I 1, supplied in MS., and I 2 (? blank). Two editions appeared this year, having identical titlepages. The present is presumably the earlier. The Returne From Pernassus: ... _At London Printed by G. Eld, for Iohn Wright, and are to bee sold at his shop at Christ church Gate._ ¦1606.¦ 4^o. (6¾ × 5). T. 9. 4.