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Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![8063 WILLOBIE, or WILLOUGHBY (HENRY) WILLOBIE HIS AVISA. Or THE TRUE PICTURE OF A MODEST MAID, AND OF A CHAST AND CONSTANT WIFE. In Hexamiter verse. The like argument whereof, was neuer heretofore published. Read the preface to the Reader before you enter farther. [Quotation from Proverbs, xii., 4.] russia gilt, g.e. sm.4to. Imprinted by Iohn Windet. 1594 *, 4 ll.; A—R2 in fours (title soiled and slightly mended, 2 last I]. mended). First Epirion. From Bright’s and Corser’s collections. Four leaves at the end are deficient, this copy ending on Q2. THE ONLY OTHERS KNOWN ARE IN THE British MUSEUM AND AT BRITWELL. It appears from Hadrian Dorrel’s Epistle to the Reader that the name Avisa was formed of the initial letters of the posy or motto, Amans. vxor. tnurolata. semper. amanda. The work contains the earliest mention of SHAKESPEARE, referring to “The Rape of Lucrece.” 8064 Willoughby of Parham (F., Zord) An Exact Relation of the most Exe- crable attempts of John Allin, committed on the Person of His Iixcellency Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham, Captain General of the Continent of Guiana, and of all the Caribby-Islands, and our Lord Proprietor (8 dl.) speckled calf gilt, r.e. padded with blanks sm. 4to. Printed for Richard Lowndes, at the White Lion in S. Pauls Churchyard near the little Northdoor. 1665 8065 Willymat (William) A Princes Looking Glasse, or a Princes Direc- tion, very requisite and necessarie for a Christian Prince, to view and behold himselfe in, containing sundrie, wise, learned, godly, and Princely precepts and instructions, excerpted and chosen out of that most Christian, and vertuous BASIAIKON AQPON, or his Maiesties instructions to his dearest sonne Henrie the Prince, and translated into Latin and English verse (his Maiesties consent and approbation beeing first had and obtained thereunto) for the more delight and pleasure of the said Prin¢ée now in his young yeares, olive morocco plain, inside dentelles, g. e. from Miss Currer’s Library ; sm. 4to. Printed by [ohn Legat, Printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge. 1603. And are to be sold in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Crowne by Simon Waterson A—M in fours. Portraits of James I and Prince Henry (with a pike) are inserted. Dedicated to Prince Henry in a prolix epistle from ‘’Ruskington in Lincolnshiere this 6. of December, 1603.” 8066 Wilmore (John) The Case of John Wilmore Truly and Impartially vellum, RARE sm. folio. Printed for Kdw. Powell at the White Swan in Little Brittain, MDCLX XXII](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31648617_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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