By the Queene
Subtitle: whereas the Queenes Maiestie, for avoyding of the great inconvenience that hath growen and dayly doeth increase within this her realme, by the inordinate excesse in apparel ...
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 565
Publisher: By the deputies of Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie
Published: 1597
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Subjects: Clothing and dress; Early works to 1800; Sumptuary laws; Proclamations
Other titles: Whereas the Queenes Maiestie, for avoyding of the great inconvenience that hath growen and dayly doeth increase within this her realme, by the inordinate excesse in apparel
Notes: Versos of leaves blank.

"Geuen vnder our signet, at our mannor of Greenwich, the sixt day of July, in the nine and thirtieth yeere of our raigne."

Sheets 2-4 are signed at the bottom, respectively, "B" (men's apparel), "C" (women's apparel), "D" (more men's apparel); sheet 5 (more women's apparel) has the issue date of 6 July and imprint. The unaccustomed men/women alteration may point to some confusion in printing--cf. STC (2nd ed.).

STC (2nd ed.) 8257

Steele 890 (England)