The Famous History of Guy, Earle of Warwicke
By: By Samuell Rowlands ....
Edition: 'NB. This seems the first edition' [Percy's note].
Publisher: Imprinted at London by Edward Allde dwelling ... ]
Published: 1607
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Copland, William, -- fl. 1556-1569.
Work titles: Guy of Warwick
Notes: The DNB article on Samuel Rowlands describes him as 'a voluminous writer of tracts in prose and verse' ... 'Occasionally he sank to mere bookmaking-hastily versifying popular stories, as in his 'Guy of Warwick' ... All Rowlands's works are bibliographicalrarities, and several are extant only in one, two or three copies'. In the DNB listing of his works 'The Famous History of Guy, Earle of Warwicke, London, by Elizabeth Allde', 1607, dedicated in prose to Philip Herbert, earl of Montgomery, and in verse to the 'noble English nation' is described as being 'in twelve cantos with rough woodcuts by E.B. No copy of this edition is known' [? until now, perhaps] ... 'The tract is hastily and carelessly written, closely following the old romance first printed byWilliam Copland'.

STC does not record the 'lost' 1607 ed. In Percy copy C3r line 4 of text ends: 'Earth', not 'earth' (as the 1609 ed.); it would however, agree with STC 21378.3 [E. Allde, c. 1620] or STC 21378.7 Edw. All-de, [c. 1625], in both of which eds. 'Earth' appears in the reference cited; a 1607 edition of which 'no copy is known' is referred to in the DNB; could this possibly be Percy's ? He himself writes on t.p.: 'This seems the first edition' [MK, cataloguer].