Early Prose and Poetical Tracts: Illustrative of the Drama and Literature of the Reign of Queen ...
Publisher: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, and to be had of W . Skeffington
Published: 1853
Number of pages: 770
Notes: Vol. 1: Eight novels: With reproduction of original t.p.: Riche his Farewell to militarie profession : conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme. Gathered together ... by Barnabe Riche .... Imprinted at London, by Robart Walley, 1581; several of the tales are from Italian sources. The "Conclusion" contains a ninth story, Balthaser, similar to Machiavelli's Marriage of Belphegor; edited by John Payne Collier.