The mirour for magistrates
Subtitle: wherein may bee seene by examples passed in this realme, with how greeuous plagues, vices are punished in great princes and magistrates, and how fraile and vnstable worldly prosperity is found, where fortune seemeth most highly to fauour.
Contributors: Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?; Higgins, John, fl. 1570-1602.; Dorset, Thomas Sackville, Earl of, 1536-1608.; Marsh, Thomas, fl. 1554-1587.; Marsh, Henry, fl. 1584-1589, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Newly imprinted, and with the additions of diuers tragedies enlarged.
Publisher: By Henry Marsh, being the assigne of Thomas Marsh
Published: 1587
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources.; Great Britain -- History -- Poetry.
Genres: Sources.; Poetry.
Notes: LC copy has bookplate of The Honble. P. Ashburnham.
STC (2nd ed.) 13445
Originally planned by William Baldwin and others as a continuation of Lydgate's Fall of princes. This ed., edited by John Higgins, contains in one chronological series, 74 tales in verse, combining the ones published by Baldwin in 1559 and 1563 (covering 1387-1496) with the First parte added by Higgins in 1574 (on the earlier legendary period). Higgins has largely rewritten his part, extended it to 219 A.D., and made additions to Baldwin's.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ ²A-²C⁸ D-Y⁸ ³A-³C⁸ 2D-2M⁸.
Includes Thomas Sackville's Induction (leaves 205-213).