Mirror for magistrates
Subtitle: in five parts
By: collated with various editions, and historical notes, &c., by Joseph Haslewood.
Contributors: Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?; Higgins, John, 1570-1602.; Niccols, Richard, 1584-1616.; Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833, ed.
Publisher: Lackington, Allen, and co. [etc.]
Published: 1815
Place of publication: London
Language: enm; eng
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources; Great Britain -- History -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Notes: Added t.-p.; each part has special t.p. within ornamental border.
150 copies printed.
A collection of legends in verse, originally published in 1559 as a continuation of Lydgate's "Fall of princes", by William Baldwin and others; subsequent parts were added by John Higgins and Thomas Blenerhasset and in 1610 Richard Niccols added "A winter nights vision", containing ten additional tragedies and "Englands Eliza".
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Part I, by John Higgins <Reprinted from the edition of 1587, collated with those of 1575 and 1610>  Part II: From the conquest of Cæsar, unto the comygn of Duke William the Conqueror. By Thomas Blenerhasset <from the edition of 1578 collated with that of 1610>; title: v. 2. [pt. 1] Part III: Legends from the conquest by William Baldwin and others <from the edition of 1587 collated with those of 1559,1563,1571,1575,1578 and 1610>; title: v. 2, pt. 2. Part IV. A winter night's vision, by Richard Niccols <from the edition of 1610>  Part V. Englands Eliza, by Richard Niccols <from the edition of 1610>