Mirror for magistrates, in five parts ...
Subtitle: collated with various editions, and historical notes, &c.
By: by Joseph Haslewood.
Contributors: Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?; Higgins, John, fl. 1570-1602; Niccols, Richard, 1584-1616; Blenerhasset, Thomas, 1550?-1625?; Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833; Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770-1859 (bookplate)
Publisher: Lackington, Allen [etc.]
Published: 1815
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Sources; Great Britain -- History -- Poetry
Genres: Sources
Work titles: Mirrour for magistrates
Notes: A collection of legends in verse, originally published in 1559 as a continuation of Lydgate's "Fall of princes", by William Baldwin and others; subsequent parts were added by John Higgins and Thomas Blenerhasset and in 1610 Richard Niccols added "A winter nights vision", containing ten additional tragedies and "Englands Eliza".

Added title pages in each vol.; each part has special t.p.

"Account of the editions of the Mirror for magistrates": [4] p. in MS. inserted in v. 1.

RBSC copy: "Introduction" interleaved with blank leaves, some with MS. notes.  Cancelled pages 165-184 of v. 2 bound at beginning of v. 1.  "Postscript" (p. [259]-260) from another ed.? bound in v. 1 between prelim. p. xxxii and xxxiii.  With the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick [Franks 25683]
Table of contents: title: v. 1. pt. 1.  By John Higgins.  Reprinted from the edition of 1587, collated with those of 1575 and 1610.  pt. 2.  From the conquest of Caesar vnto the comyng of Duke William The Conqueror.  By Thomas Blenerhasset.  Reprinted from the edition of 1578, collated with that of 1610.-  v. 2. pt. 3.  Legends from the conquest.  By William Baldwin and others.  Reprinted from the edition of 1587, collated with those of 1559, 1563, 1571, 1575, 1578 and 1610.  pt. 4.  A winter night's vision, by Richard Niccols, from the edition of 1610.  pt. 5.  Englands Eliza, by Richard Niccols, from the edition of 1610.