8 unnumbered pages, 342 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves ; 4to (20 cm)

Phisicke against fortune, aswell prosperous as aduerse, : conteyned in two bookes. Whereby men are instructed, with lyke indifferencie to remedie theyr affections, aswell in tyme of the bryght shynyng sunne of prosperitie, as also of foule lowryng stormes of aduersitie. Expedient for all men, but most necessary for such as be subiect to any notable insult of eyther extremitie. / Written in Latine by Frauncis Petrarch, a most famous poet, and oratour. And now first englished by Thomas Twyne.

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