A myrrour for magistrates
Subtitle: wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, with howe greuous 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.
Contributors: Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Edition: Newly corrected and augmented. Anno 1571.
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 170:5.
Publisher: By Thomas Marshe dwellynge in Fleetstreete, neare vnto S. Du[n]stanes Churche
Published: 1571
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Political ethics -- Early works to 1800.; Great Britain -- History -- Poetry.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Poetry.
Work titles: Mirrour for magistrates. Part 3.
Notes: By William Baldwin and others.

In verse.

A continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum".

The first two parts of "A mirror for magistrates" were written by John Higgins and Thomas Blenerhasset respectively; this third part was in fact written before the others.

Leaves 139 and 140 misfoliated 140 and 141; numerous other errors in foliation.

The outer leaf of gathering D is in two settings: leaf D1r has in running title (1) "Folio. 19." or (2) "Fol. 19".

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

STC (2nd ed) 1249.

Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies. 4(d).

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1943.. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English Books, 1475-1640 ; 170:05).