A myrrour for magistrates
Subtitle: Wherein may be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperity is founde, even of those whom fortune seemeth most highly to fauour.
Contributors: Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 170:4.
Publisher: In Fletestrete nere to Saynct Dunstans Churche by Thomas Marshe
Published: 1563
Place of publication: Anno. 1563. Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Political ethics -- Early works to 1800.; Great Britain -- History -- Poetry.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Poetry.
Work titles: Mirrour for magistrates. Part 3.
Notes: By William Baldwin and others.

In verse.

A continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum".

The first two parts of "A mirror for magistrates" were written by John Higgins and Thomas Blenerhasset respectively; this third part was in fact written before the others.

Signatures: [par.]⁴ A⁴ B-N O-U⁴ X-Bb Cc⁴ (+-A2).

Numerous errors in foliation.

With a final contents leaf and a final errata leaf.

Page Aa1r exists in two settings; line 7 has (1) "dilingēce" or (2) "dilygence". Setting 2 is probably later (Folger Library catalogue).

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

STC (2nd ed) 1248.

Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies. 4(c).

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1943. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English Books, 1475-1640 ; 170:04).