The Droomme of Doomes day
Subtitle: wherin the frailties and miseries of mans lyfe are lyuely portrayed and learnedly set forth, deuided as appeareth in the page following
By: translated and collected by George Gascoigne, Esquyer.
Contributors: English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: For Gabriell Cawood ...
Published: 1576
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216.
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 11641
Title within ornamental border; Woodcut on p. [61] has the caption, "Of the vnspeakable perplexitie of the damned."
"This worke is deuided into three partes, the first whereof is entituled, The view of worldly vanities ... and the second parte is named, The shame of sinne ... And the third parte is called the needels eye ... hereunto is added a priuate letter, the which doth teach remedies againt the bitternesse of death"--Verso of t.p.
The first part is identified with Innocent III's De contemptu mundi sive de miseria humanae conditionis (Cf. F.E. Schelling, Life and writings of George Gascoigne, Boston, 1893; Cambridge hist. of Eng. lit., v. 3, p. 234-5)
LC copy disbound and trimmed to 18 x 13 cm. and set into paper 22 x 16 cm.  The errata leaf (signed 2[three dots]j) is at the end.  Other copies have this leaf in the prelim. matter: Cf. Huth catalogue, 1880, v. 2; Corser collectanea, pt. 6; Hazlitt, Bibl. collections, v. 1; Grolier club catalogue; the ed. by J.W. cunliffe, Cambridge Eng. classics, 1910.