The beauty and good properties of women <otherwise Calisto and Melibœa c. 1530>
Series: The Tudor facsimile texts; Tudor facsimile texts
Publisher: Issued for subscribers by T.C. & E.C. Jack
Published: 1909
Place of publication: London and Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Work titles: Calisto and Melebea
Notes: From the only known copy in the Malone collection in the Bodleian library. Printer's mark on last page. Two pages of script at the beginning of the printed copy included in facsimile.

Original (caption) title: A new cõmodye in englysh in maner Of an enterlude ryght elygant & full of craft of rethoryk / wherein is shewd & dyscrybyd as well the bewte & good propertes of women / as theyr vycys & euyll cõdiciõs / with a morall cõclusion & exhortacyon to vertew. [At end: Johẽs rastell me imprimi fecit]

"A partial rendering of the great Spanish dramatic novel Celestina ... reproduces the first four out of the twenty-one acts of the original ... the conclusion is entirely different." cf. The interlude of Calisto and Melebea, London, 1908 (Malone society reprints)