Willobie his avisa
Subtitle: with an essay towards its interpretation
By: by Charles Hughes.
Contributors: Willoughby, Henry, 1574?-1596?.; Dorrell, Hadrian.; Hughes, Charles.; Willoughby, Thomas.; Colse, Peter.
Publisher: Sherratt and Hughes
Published: 1904
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616.
Notes: 500 copies printed. No.137.

With reproductions of original title-page.

Ostensibly edited by Hadrian Dorrell from the papers left by his friend Henry Willoughby;thought to be the work of Dorrell himself, though the nave is probably fictitious. Has been ascribed to the Earl of Southampton and others.

"The cumulative evidence makes it almost certain the the W.S. of the poem stands for WilliamShakespeare." cf. p.xxvii.

The text of the avisa has been prepared by collating Dr. Grosart's edition (1880) with the 1594 edition in the  British Museum. Appendies A and B are "from 1596 edition of 'Avisa' as printedin 1635 edition". Appendix C is "printed from the unique copy inthe possession of A.H.Huth esq."