Title: Eight novels employed by English dramatic poets of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Originally published by Barnaby Riche in the year 1581, and reprinted from a copy of that date in the Bodleian Library
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. [2], xvi, 224. Signatures: [a]8 b B-P8. Original cloth. Includes prospectus for the Shakespeare Society. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">With reproduction of original title page: Riche his Farewell to militarie profession: conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme, Gathered together [...] by Barnabe Riche (London, Robart Walley, 1581, STC 20996). Several of the tales are from Italian sources. The (unnamed) editor, John Payne Collier, received the transcript of the unique Bodleian first edition from James Orchard Halliwell. The "Conclusion" contains a ninth story, Belthaser, similar to Machiavelli's Marriage of Belphegor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Content:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Sappho, duke of Mantona</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Of Apolonius and Silla</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Of Nicander and Lucilla</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Of Fineo and Fiamma</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Of two brethren and their wives</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Of Gonsales and his vertuous wife Agatha</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Of Aramanthus, borne a leper</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Of Phylotus and Emilia</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Conclusion</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See A. &amp; J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p. 477; II, A66.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117147" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>