Pasquils Iests: with the Merriments of Mother Bunch. Wittie, pleasant, and delightfull. _London: Printed by M. F. and are to be sold by Andrew Kembe, dwelling at Saint Margarets hill in Southwarke._ 1635.
Collation: A-H⁴, unpaged. Wanting H 4 (? blank). On verso of titlepage is the note ‘Read the Epistle, or reade nothing’ within small woodcut titlepage border. Address to the reader. Verses. The first edition appeared in 1604, the present being apparently the fifth.
The Araygnement of Paris A Pastorall. Presented before the Queenes Maiestie, by the Children of her Chappell. _Imprinted at London by Henrie Marsh. Anno._ 1584.
Collation: A-E⁴, unpaged. Prologue. Epilogue at end. The play is ascribed to Peele in Nash’s preface to R. Green’s ‘Menaphon’ of 1589.
Merrie Conceited Iests, of George Peel Gentleman, sometimes student in Oxford. Wherein is shewed the course of his life, how he lived: a man very well known in the City of London, and elsewhere.
Buy, read, and judge, The price do not grudge: It will do thee more pleasure, Then twice so much treasnre [_sic_].
_London, Printed for Wiliiam_ [sic] _Gilbertson, at the Bible in Giltspur-street without New-gate._ 1657.
Collation: A-C⁴, paged. The first edition of these probably apocryphal jests appeared in 1607: the present appears to be the fourth.
A Dictionarie in Spanish and English, first published into the English tongue by Ric. Perciuale Gent. Now enlarged and amplified With many thousand words, ... All done by Iohn Minsheu Professor of Languages in London. Hereunto for the further profile and pleasure of the learner or delighted in this tongue, is annexed an ample English Dictionarie, Alphabetically set downe with the Spanish words thereunto adioyned, ... _Imprinted at London, by Edm. Bollifant._ 1599.
Collation: A⁶, with one sheet signed on first leaf A 2 inserted after A 1, B-2K⁶, paged. (This, and not A²A⁶, is the correct description of the preliminary matter.) Three columns on a page. Title on A1. The inserted sheet contains, epistle dedicatory to Sir John Scot, Sir Henry Bromley, Sir Edward Grevel, and Master William Fortescue, signed Iohn Minsheu, and an address to the reader, signed by the same. On the original A 2 begins ‘Directions for the understanding the vse of this Dictionary’, signed Iohn Minshew. The Spanish-English part begins on A 3, the English-Spanish on Y 1 each with head-title. Percyvall’s original work ‘Bibliotheca Hispanica. Containing a Grammar with a Dictionarie in Spanish, English and Latine’ appeared in 1591. The present work and the grammar that follows no doubt formed one publication, though they are bibliographically distinct. They are the first edition of Minsheu’s revision.