The first part of the eight liberall science: Entituled, Ars adulandi, the art of Flattery, with the confutation thereof, both very pleasant and profitable, deuised and compiled by Vlpian Fulwell.
His diebus non peractis, Nulla fides est in pactis. Videto.
Mel in ore, verba lactis Fel in corde fraus in factis Caveto.
Who reads a booke rashly, at randome doth runne, He goes on his arant, yet leaues it vndone.
_Imprinted at London, by William Hoskins, and are to be solde at his shop ioyning to the midle Temple gate, within Temple Barre._ 1576.
Collation: ¶⁴A²B-M⁴N², folios numbered. ‘A dialogue betwene the Author and his Muse, as touching the dedication of this booke’, giving in anagram the name ‘Mildred Burgley’. Epistle dedicatory to Lady Burleigh (wife of the Lord Treasurer), signed. Address to the reader. The printer to the reader, in verse. ‘A description of the seuen liberall sciences, into whose company the eight hath intruded her selfe’ in verse. Text in eight dialogues. This is the first edition and is supposed to be unique. Another edition, 1579, is in the Bodleian, and a third (1580?) in the British Museum.
The Golden Garland of Princely Delight; Wherein is contained the History of many of the Kings, Queens, Princes, Lords, Ladies, Knights, and Gentlewomen of this Kingdom. Being most pleasant Songs and Sonnets, to sundry New Tunes much in request. In Two Parts. The Thirteenth Edition, with Additions, Corrected and Amended. Licensed according to Order. _Printed for J. Deacon at the Angel in Giltspur-street without Newgate,_ 1690.
Title partly within woodcut border. Collation: A-G⁸, unpaged. Table to the two parts. The volume is a collection of ballads etc., Part 1 purporting to be of an historical nature, Part 2 containing songs and imaginary subjects. At the end is a publisher’s advertisement of books, headed ‘Books Printed for, and sold by J. Deacon at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street, without Newgate; where Country Chapmen may be furnished with all sorts of Histories, &c. small Books and Ballads.’
The Whole woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquyre: Newlye compyled into one Volume, That is to say: His Flowers, Hearbes, Weedes, the Fruites of warre, the Comedie called Supposes, the Tragedie of Iocasta, the Steele glasse, the Complaint of Phylomene, the storie of Fernando Ieronimi, and the pleasure at Kenelworth Castle. _London Imprinted by Abell Ieffes, dwelling in the Fore Streete, without Creeplegate, neere vnto Grubstreete._ 1587.