Sales catalogue 462: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/34
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 462: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1165 MIRROUR FOR MACISTRATES, The Last Parte of the Mirour for Magistrates, wherein may be seene by examples passed in this Realme, with howe grevous plagues, vices are punished in great Princes and Magistrates, and howe frayle and unstable worldly properitie 1s founde, where Fortune seemeth moste highly to favour. Newly corrected and amended. Black Letter. JZ 2¢le within a woodcut border. Small 4to, fene copy in full morocco gilt, g.e., by Mackenzie. London, Thomas Marshe, 1575. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. LI.). £135 *** This was edited by William Baldwin. Shakespeare largely drew upon the ‘‘ Mirrour for Magistrates.’?’ The following headings will suggest the different occasions : — The Complaint of Shores wife, one of the Concubines of King Edward the Fourth. King Richard the Third slaine at Bosworth. How George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, brother to King Edward the fourth, was cruelly drowned in a vessell of Malmesy. A lamentation upon the death of Kinge Edwarde the 4. King Richard the Second miserably murdered. The vertuous Kinge Henry the sixt cruelly murdered in the Tower of London. 1166 A MIRROUR FOR MAGISTRATES: Being a true chronicle historie of the untimely falles of such unfortunate Princes and men of note, as have happened since the first entrance of Brute into this Island, untill this our latter Age. Newly enlarged with a last part, called A Winter Nights Vision, being an addition of such Tragedies, especially famous, as are exempted in the former Historie, with a Poem annexed, called Englands Eliza. Illustrated with woodcuts. Thick small 4to, full russia, m.e. London, 1610. £18 18s *** This copy contains the rare dedication to the Earl of Nottingham which was suppressed. The only perfect copy quoted by Lowndes is Malone’s. It also has the dedication to Lady Clare, which is nearly always missing. Mr. Hazlitt, in his ‘‘ Shakespeare’s Library,” reprints a portion of this volume as