¦The Arbor of Amorous Deuices: Wherein young Gentlemen may reade many
pleasant fancies & fine deuices: And thereon meditate diuers sweete
Conceites to court the loue of faire Ladies and Gentlewomen: By N. B.
Gent. _Imprinted at London by Richard Iones, at the Rose and Crowne,
neere S. Andrewes Church._ 1597.¦
4^o. (7-1/4 × 4-3/4). S. 8. 3.
Collation: A-F^4, unpaged. Wanting A 1, 4, D 3, 4, E 2-4, and A 3
badly, D 1, 2, E 1 slightly defective. Address to the readers,
signed "R. I. Printer." Only one edition of the work appears to be
known, but it was entered on the Stationers' Register as early as
Jan. 7, 1593-4. The author was Nicholas Breton. The above title is
given by Mr Hazlitt (H. 57) apparently from the Beauclerk
sale-catalogue (1781) lot 3241. The present copy is the only one
now known.
Sinker 470.
Grimellos Fortunes, With his Entertainment in his trauaile. A discourse
full of pleasure. _London Printed for E. White, and are to bee solde at
his Shoppe neere the little North doore of S. Paules-Church at the Signe
of the Gun._ 1604.
=B. L.= 4^o. (7 × 5). S. 36. 3.
Collation: A^2B-D^4E^2, unpaged. Address to the reader signed B. N.
(_i.e._ Nicholas Breton). The text is in dialogue.