I. Willobie's Avisa, 1594. II. 'Apologie,' 1596. III. The victorie of English chastitie, 1596. IV. Penelope's complaint by Peter Colse, 1596. Ed., with introduction and notes and illustrations
By: by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.
Contributors: Willoughby, Henry, 1574?-1596?; Dorrell, Hadrian.; Willoughby, Thomas.; Colse, Peter.; Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899.
Publisher: Printed for the subscribers [by C.E. Simms, Manchester]
Published: 1880
Place of publication: [Blackburn, Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Notes: With reproductions of original title-pages.
Page 201 of the Notes issued in 1883, with no. 38 of the series ("Fly-leaves, or Additional notes and illustrations").
Page 201 bound in v. 38 in the Univ. of Cincinnati set.
"Limited to sixty-two copies--fifty distributed ... [to subscribers] and twelve editor's copies for Shakespeare students. This is no. 20. Proof-sheets and waste pages have been destroyed."
Willobie's Avisa, ostensibly edited by Hadrian Dorrell from papers left by his friend Henry Willoughby; thought to be the work of Dorrell himself, though the name is probably fictitious. Has been ascribed to the Earl of Southampton, Matthew Roydon, and others. The Apologie also by Dorrell; The victorie of English chastitle is signed Thomas Willoby frater Henrici Willoby nuper defuncti. Penelope's complaint contains an attack on "Avisa."
Inserted are two autograph letters (to Dowden?) by F.F. Fox on the localities in Avisa.